Word: pittsburgh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Pittsburgh there was shipped recently to Bloemfontein, South Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae...
...studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis of the spectra of southern nebulae, the determination of the velocities of bright...
Draper. In 1849, when Zachary Taylor became president, Joseph Home began a store which as Joseph Home & Co. was to be Pittsburgh's oldest department store. Shortly he took on as partners C. B. Shea and A. P. Burchfield. Their business grew. Their children went into the business. Burchfields married Homes. Grandchildren of the first partners received their schooling and joined their parents in the Joseph Home Co. Joseph B. Shea, son of Joseph Home's partner, C. B. Shea, is now president of the company...
...concern was in good condition for refinancing, for letting the investing public share in it. Lehman Bros, of Manhattan took the initiative; Field Glore & Co. of Manhattan and J. H. Holmes of Pittsburgh joined them in the underwriting. Joseph Horne Co. was incorporated for $7,500,000 preferred stock and 240,000 shares of no par common stock. But, although Home's department store was thus a quasi-public institution, no preferred stock was sold, and only 40,000 of the common. That common already is listed on the Pittsburgh stock exchange, but is closely held. Homes, Sheas...