. Bulletin. Science. Figure 15.—The 62-inch telescope reflector disc (USNM 310899), cast by Standard Plate Glass Company, April 20, 1895, and figured by John Peate. It weighs 2500 pounds. Shown here as it hangs in its protective crate, this clear green glass mirror will be a feature of the exhibit of optics and astronomy now being prepared for the Smithsonian's new Museum of History and Technology, scheduled to open soon after 1962. {Smith- sonian photo 411J2) Sedgwick of Nashville, Tennessee, had offered to mount and equip the mirror on the same terms under which Peate had made it. That is, h
. Bulletin. Science. Figure 15.—The 62-inch telescope reflector disc (USNM 310899), cast by Standard Plate Glass Company, April 20, 1895, and figured by John Peate. It weighs 2500 pounds. Shown here as it hangs in its protective crate, this clear green glass mirror will be a feature of the exhibit of optics and astronomy now being prepared for the Smithsonian's new Museum of History and Technology, scheduled to open soon after 1962. {Smith- sonian photo 411J2) Sedgwick of Nashville, Tennessee, had offered to mount and equip the mirror on the same terms under which Peate had made it. That is, he would do the work if someone would donate the cost and the material. But of this ofTer, too, nothing further was heard. Possibly he died before the mirror was completed. The mirror was to remain untouched for some 24 years. In 1922 the "Greenville Roundtable," a group reportedly founded by Dr. Peate, allocated $90 to the Reverend H. G. Dodds to investigate the disposition of the mirror. In that same year the Erie Conference appointed Dodds a committee of one to report on the same matter. Dodds visited American University and conferred with the chancel- lors. They checked the mirror and it seemed to be in good shape. Dodds then went to Warner and Swasey, in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attempted to discover what it would cost to mount the mirror and provide an observatory. But he learned nothing there. Dodds knew nothing either of astronomy or of glass and his lack of knowledge did not inspire confidence in his mission. He did note a peculiar phenomenon, that people seemed suspicious of the mirror in itself without knowing anything about its actual ^ 28 Preston, pp. 145-146. PAPER 26: THREE 19TH-CENTURY AMERICAN TELESCOPE 179. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Smit
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