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English: Earl Williams, an observer in the 1940s with the what was then called the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey — today's National Geodetic Survey — looks through the telescope in Gaithersburg, Md., that helped scientists study the Chandler wobble. Until it was shuttered in 1982, the observatory was one of five around the world that studied a wobble in the Earth’s axis. (U.S. Coast and Geodetic Archives) |
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