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...MIRROR OF CHINA-Louis Laloy-Knopf ($2.75). Impressions of Chinese life, written by a Western scholar (Professor of Chinese studies at the University of Paris) who knows the language and the people...
This week the mirror starts its journey west on a special train carrying a freight-car with equipment for unloading, and a caboose. The train will travel no faster than 30 m.p.h. Since it was impossible to provide a lateral clearance of 18 ft., the mirror had to be shipped standing upright. This raised the problem of overhead clearances. After much study a route was worked out with the tightest squeeze a three-inch bridge clearance at Buffalo. The big disk goes by New York Central to Cleveland; by Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis to St. Louis; by Chicago, Burlington...
...money for the telescope, with the stipulation that full opportunity to cooperate be given to Carnegie Institution's men at Mt. Wilson Observatory. The committee in charge of the project is headed by Mt. Wilson's venerable George Ellery Hale, famed solar authority. The first 200-in. mirror was marred during the casting when cores broke loose from the floor of the mold and floated to the top of the molten glass (TIME, April 2, 1934). Rather than grind out the huge pockmarks in the mirror's back, the Corning physicists decided to cast a new disk...
Responsibility for the safety of the mirror passed to the railroads last week the moment the special train was coupled. One thoroughgoing wreck would set U. S. Astronomy back three years...
...holes and grooves in the mirror's back not only diminish the total weight but provide a hold for the steel grips which will keep the mirror in place in the telescope...