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This new type reflector, it was explained, combines the advantages of the reflecting telescope and of the large-field photographic refractor. If both refracts and reflects. Ordinary reflecting telescopes cover satisfactorily only a fraction of one square degree of the sky at a time, but the new Jewett Reflector can cover from ten to a hundred square degrees, depending on the properties chosen for optical parts and mechanical parts. It is particularly effective for surveys of the distribution of galaxies and stars, variations of stars, and other problems where a large coverage and high speed are essential...
...plane crashed through two 18-inch brick walls, littered the observatory's sleek marble floor with broken bricks, mortar, gasoline, wreckage. Both aviators were killed. The telescope (a 36-inch refractor) was not damaged and no astronomers were hurt. But two offices containing precious photographs were wrecked...
Yerkes has the world's biggest refractor (a telescope equipped with a lens instead of a mirror) but it is only 40 inches in diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became...
...skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical serum, "all dishonesty, crime and conflict from the human brain...
...awarded for 1924 to Ambrose Swasey, of Cleveland. Mr. Swasey, born in New Hampshire in 1846, is now Vice Chairman of the Warner & Swasey Co., pioneer manufacturers of astronomical and optical apparatus, fine machine tools, precision instruments, military and naval rangefinders. Under his direction were built the 36-inch refractor at Lick Observatory, the 40-inch refractor at Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research...