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Identifier: popularsciencemo89newyuoft (find matches)
Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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Above: The build-ing complete, up tothe covering of thedome. This is fur-nished with a sys-tem of shutterswhich with thedouble wall permitan even tempera-ture to be main-tained in the interiorof the building Above: The ironframework of thewalls. Horizontalribs are attachedin pairs both to theouter and inneredges of the up-right beams, thusforming a doublewall with an inter-mediate air-space The permanentconcrete pier at Vic-toria. The ends ofthe polar axis aresupported on steelcastings which arebolted to theheads of the piers having already been captured. It is alsoextremely valuable for spectroscopic work.A long exposure is required even with thegreat forty-inch Yerkes refractor to olilainthe spectrogram of a star of the fourthmagnitude. This is much reduced at Mt.Wilson by using the short focus sixty-inchmirror, not only on account of the largersize, but also because the loss of lightcaused by reflection is much less than that suffered by a ray of light in passing throughthe thick l

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