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The Perfect Machine Building the Palomar Telescope: Engineering the 200-Inch Hale Telescope
"The creation of the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory stands as one of the twentieth century's monumental engineering achievements. Often described by contemporaries and historians as "the perfect machine," the telescope and its surrounding infrastructure required unprecedented metallurgical, optical, and mechanical innovations to peer deeper into the universe than ever before. Introduction to the Palomar Project and the Vision of George Ellery Hale In the 1920s and 1930s, astronomy stood at the precipice of a new era, yet it was severely limited by the light-gathering capacity of existing instruments, such as the 100-inch Hooker..."
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