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
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
Would make sure that discovery is the right way to go. One of the greatest telescope superior to any and existence. He gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the new observatory. This telescope is his monument. The construction took a long time and started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. The county building a firstclass road to the top of mount hamilton. That started in 1876. By 1888 the construction was done and it could Start Building 1886 theying and by finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and they would start constructing this dome. Diameter,is large possibly 100 feet in diameter and it houses a 60 foot long telescope. The telescope is high up and you cannot reach the eyepiece easily. There are workarounds for this problem because the floor i am standing on was a huge elevator. This floor would go up to the telescope. They would ride the floor up to wherever the telescope was and easily look through the eyepiece or
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