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Start Date:1995
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Photo album with photographs taken at the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the 140 Foot Telescope in 1995. Most photographs not identified.
Start Date:1965
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Green Bank Operations Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Type:Text
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Start Date:1959
Location:Canton, OH
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Construction of 140 foot telescope sphere in E.W. Bliss Company factory in Canton, Ohio
Start Date:1964
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - lift of the final yoke section with a connection ballast tank
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:The 140 Foot Telescope bearing (upper left) and polar shaft after being bolted together in Green Bank
Start Date:1959
Location:Canton, OH
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Sections of the 140 foot telescope polar shaft on rail cars, ready for shipping from the E.W. Bliss Company factory in Canton, Ohio, to Green Bank, WV
Start Date:1959
Location:Canton, OH
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Construction of 140 foot telescope sphere in E.W. Bliss Company factory in Canton, Ohio
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - Arrival of the final shaft in Green Bank in December 1963
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction site, superstructure on the ground at left
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - yoke being assembled on the ground, October 1963
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - yoke being assembled on the ground, October 1963
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - the 17.5 foot diameter spherical bearing leaving General Steel Industries at Eddystone PA, where it was cast in early 1963. With a weight of more than 350 tons, it was the largest nickel steel casting ever poured. Much of the material was cut away in subsequent machining. A special railroad car was cast in a single piece to transport it from the foundry to the Westinghouse plant at East Pittsburgh where it was machined. [show more]
Start Date:1959
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Transporting a portion of the E.W. Bliss 140 foot telescope shaft by road from the rail head at Bartow to the site in Green Bank
Start Date:1959
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - One half of the Bliss polar shaft being delivered to Green Bank in 1959. That shaft was eventually abandoned and later buried at the Green Bank site
Start Date:1964-11-04
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - On November 4, 1964, after many weeks of preparation, the lift of the superstructure was started, the final large lift of the construction. It was witnessed by many people from NRAO and nearby areas. There was excitement when the superstructure reached the near-vertical position. It had been out of balance since the beginning of the lift, and this condition was being controlled by a mobile crane which held the heavy side of the structure off the ground and also kept it from swinging freely. At the near-vertical position, a cable on the mobile crane parted, which allowed the structure to swing away from the crane and hit the ground. The structure was lowered to the ground and the lifting procedure revised. The lift was started again on November 10, and completed without further problems on November 11, 1964 [show more]
Start Date:1964
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - lift of the first section of the yoke weighing almost 500 tons
Start Date:1964-10-19
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:Installation of the hour angle drive gear
Start Date:1959
Location:Canton, OH
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:Moving a portion of the 140 foot telescope shaft onto a rail car for transport from E.W. Bliss Company factory in Canton, Ohio, to Green Bank
Start Date:1959
Location:Canton, OH
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Original Format of Digital Item:B&W print
Subject:Construction
Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Description:E.W. Bliss Company model of the 140 foot telescope
Start Date:1964-04-17
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction
Start Date:1964-04-17
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction
Start Date:1964-04-17
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction. Dave Heeschen's Corvette in the foreground
Start Date:1964-12
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - drive
Start Date:1963
Location:Green Bank, WV
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - backup structure on the ground in 1963
Start Date:1964-11
Location:Green Bank, WV
People:Good, Peter B.
Creator:Records of the NRAO
Series:Photographs Series
Unit:140 Foot Telescope Unit
Subunit:140 Foot Construction Subunit
Type:Still Image
Subject:Instruments--140 Foot Telescope
Construction
Description:140 Foot Telescope construction - preparations for the lift into place of the yoke, November 1964. Filmmaker Peter B. Good documents the procedure