Morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium, which is now the morehead planetarium and science center. John morehead iii is from a famous North Carolina family. His grandfather was governor of North Carolina. John motely morehead iii attended carolina as an undergraduate in the school of chemistry, made an accidental discovery in a Chemistry Lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide, and he became an extremely wealthy man. In the 1930s, when he conceived of this idea, what he did as a leading Science Education contribution was he built the planetarium. When we opened in 1949, the morehead planetarium was the first planetarium in the south, so his contribution was significant. We are also the first planetarium in the world on a university campus. So he visited the admiral planetarium in chicago, the hayden planetarium. He also visited zeiss, the leading lens manufacturer in the world. They arguably still are, in germany. He had a zeiss model ii
His memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could finally Start Building this building. And then, by 1886, they finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and ground to their final figure so they could start constructing this dome. And this dome is large diameter. I do not know exactly how large it is, approximately 100 feet in diameter and it houses a 60foot long telescope. Youll notice that the telescope is high up so you cant reach the eyepiece easily, but they worked around this problem because the floor im standing on was a huge elevator and this
Businessman in the San Francisco bay area back in the 1800s. His fortune was over 3 million back in the 1860s. And he wanted to be remembered. And george davidson, the president of the California Academy of sciences and george madera, an astronomer, who showed him what saturn looked like through a small telescope, were some of the factors that convinced him that a scientific monument that would make great discoveries was the right way to go. So he decided he wanted the greatest telescope superior to any in existence constructed as his memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could final
We work with the Mission Center in goddard, maryland, which does science missions. We work with jpl, which is done in california for the deep space mission, as well as the Johnson Space center in texas, which does man missions. We provide some of the systems that will fit into that mission, but we are not the Overall Mission providers. We are at nasas John Glenn Research Center in cleveland, ohio. We are the third oldest of the nasa centers. We broke ground on january 3, 1941. We predate nasa by a little under 18 years. Naca, which extends for the National Advisory committee for aeronautics, was founded in 1915, in the infancy of aviation in this country to study this new technology and figure out how we can harness it for economic, military use. But prior to this center, they had really only focused on general aeronautics. They had not really done anything with aircraft engines. They had been seeing what they were doing in europe and found that they were way ahead of us when it came t
Any in existence constructed as his memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could finally Start Building this building. And then, by 1886, they finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and ground to their final figure so they could start constructing this dome. And this dome is large diameter. I do not know exactly how large it is, approximately 100 feet in diameter and it houses a 60foot long telescope. Youll notice that the telescope is high up so you cant reach the eyepiece easily, but they worked around this problem because the floor im standing