A Fifty-Foot Mercury Telescope

Abstract

First Paragraph: Some months ago the press brought the great news that a monster telescope, 50 feet in diameter, was being projected on an entirely novel and reliable principle, such that its construction would not only effect an enormous reduction of cost in comparison with that of existing telescopes, but would also set no limit as to size. The designer proposed to test its capabilities at the opposition of Mars in 1924, and by means of the large-scale photographs it would furnish, to solve the mysteries of our neighboring planet.