With all the care of bundling up an old rich uncle and inching him into an automobile for a long, careful drive, officials of Corning Glass Works at Corning, N. Y. last month bolted a steel wrapping around a 20-ton disk of glass, placed it on a freight car, dispatched it on a 16-day journey across the continent (TIME, March 23). Last week that enormous glass disk, which is to become the mirror of a new 200-inch telescope with which man may look three times farther into space than ever before, reached Pasadena. To...
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