Word: smithsonian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1900
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...observations and will be gone about six months. The new telescope has proved to be satisfactory in the tests that it has been put to in Cambridge during the past few months, and it has already given good results at the hands of Mr. S. B. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution, who last May took several photographs of the sun eclipse with it from a point in North Carolina. The instrument is taken to Jamaica that the work may be undertaken in the topics, a region better adapted for astronomical observations. It is especially hoped that some better photographs...