Word: lick
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...years ago Mr. James Lick of California donated $700,000 for the purchase of a telescope that should surpass all others. The lens for that telescope is now completed, having the unparalleled aperture of 36 inches. An observatory has been build upon Mount Hamilton near San Jose, at an altitude of over 4000 feet, to form a suitable site for which 40,000 tons of the hardest granite had to be removed. The lens will rest upon silver supports in an iron box until the steel dome and the mountings are finished. It is expected that everything will be perfected...
Invitations have been extended to the leading astronomers to spend a certain period in taking observations at the new Lick Observatory, California...
...recent visit to the workshop of the famous lens makers, Alvin Clark & Sons, Cambridgeport, furnishes some interesting facts concerning the objective for the great telescope of the Lick Observatory in California. It being impossible to get the glasses cast satisfactorily in this country, the Clarks sent to Paris after them soon after receiving the order from the trustees of the Observatory. Considerable time was spent before the first glass, the flint, was successfully cast, and this did not reach Mr. Clark until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which...
...little gymnasium. "Quite a good room," says my guide, complacently; "got as good a one at Hahvahrd?" I admit that we have not, to his great delight; for he exclaims, "Gawd, Charlie, this gentleman says we've got a better gymnasium than Hahvahrd; and how we ah going to lick her this year at everything dont'ch knaw?" I smile, (inwardly) and complete my observations...
...powerful machinery, by which the tube sixty feet long is to be pointed toward any part of the heavens, and kept in motion by clock work, has not yet been commenced. However, the completion of this machinery is only a question of time, and when every thing is finished Lick Observatory will have the largest and most powerful telescope in the world...