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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lick observatory which is now finished and ready for work marks the beginning of a new era of astronomical discovery. It is on Mt. Hamilton, about fifty miles from San Francisco, and is 4,200 feet above the sea and escapes all the heat and mists of the valleys. The climate is such that three-fourths of the year are clear and stars do not twinkle owing to the equal temperature which prevails at night at that altitude. It contains the largest and most powerful telescope in the world, and is supplied with the best apparatus and arrangements that...
...Alvin G. Clark, the celebrated lens polisher of Cambridge, has arrived at San Francisco with the photographic lens for the Lick telescope on Mt. Hamilton...
...Henry D. Cogswell has donated property worth $1,000,009 to found a technical school in San Francisco. 1t will be for both boys and girls and will be named the Cogswell Polytechnic College...
...San Francisco...
Francis Michael, San Francisco...