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...onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some 47,000 heavenly bodies, is the sole discoverer of two previous comets, co-discoverer of three others. In 1933 Nova Ophiuchi, a variable star which had not flared up since 1898, flared up again. Peltier was the first to see the outburst. Harvard passed on word of it to observatories...
...great benefactor of U. S. engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when it is installed in McDonald Observatory in southwestern Texas...
...years those will rank as the world's fourth largest instruments, after Carnegie Institution's 100-in. telescope at Mount Wilson, the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory's 72-in. at Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...
Other New Observatories. One old and one new reason limited Harvard's tenure of fourth-biggest-telescope position. The old reason is California Institute of Technology's intention of building a 200- in. telescope in California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait...