[SEL] Mt. Wilson?????

[Rick Rowlands]

Around here the news media commenting on Mount Wilson only state that there 
are several antenna towers there, yet no mention of the observatory.  But I 
guess to news media people broadcast towers are what is important to them!

Rick

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank DeWitt" <Frank at lbpinc.com>
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SEL] Mt. Wilson?????


> It appears that the Mt Wilson Observatory is out of danger.
> http://joy.chara.gsu.edu/CHARA/fire.php
>
> I just want to take a little bandwidth to write why Mt willson is so
> important to us engine people.  (Many of us have been there and seen
> for them selves but for the others.)
>
> There is a Fairbanks Morse Type RE with a directly coupled to a
> generator capable of producing 40 KW of power at 125 Volts D.C  Add
> to that, it is still in it's original location, and surrounded by the
> equipment it originally ran and it is truly amazing.
>
> This engine was restored by Ken and Larry Evans and others.  Larry is
> a regular contributor to this list and is the expert on Mt Wilson.  I
> am just adding opinion.
>
> Because the observatory was originally designed to run on DC and
> involves many unique mechanical devices and because everything is on
> top of a mountain, a lot of it is still there and still
> working.  Wonderful old winches, motors that are collectors items in
> there own right.  DC motor control panels.  DC lighting control
> panels, and many more "Antique mechanical items.
>
> Further investigation shows things like a wood fixture "Wiffle Tree"
> for lifting a 100 inch mirror.  Also a large worm and worm wheel
> (perhaps 12 feet.) How did it get up there (It was built in pieces
> and hobbed in place!
>
> How do you re coat a 100 in mirror that is on top of a mountain?   Ask 
> Larry
>
> If you are into the sciences and people of science you can have your
> picture taken in the same place as Albert Einstein or Edison or Edwin
> Hubble or Albert Abraham Michelson.
> He worked out the speed of light on that mountain in 1925
>
> Here is Larry's web site.
> http://www.oldengine.org/members/levans/
>
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> I want to know how God created the world.
> I am not interested in this or that phenomenon,
> in the spectrum of this or that element.
> I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
> --Albert Einstein--
>
>
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