San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc · leaf 449
Subsequently, they wereawarded the contract in June, 1952 for the sum of$938,000. This culminated six interrupted years of de-sign work by the University of California which hadbeen performed in close collaboration with the astron-omers and engineers of the Palomar Observatory onMount Wilson,… … BASE FRAME being set in place inside Observa-tory. This base frame weldment had to bestress-relieved in its entirety by heating in ahuge oven to a temperature of 1150 degreesfahrenheit. primarily by Mr. Joseph Nunn, mechanical engineerin Los Angeles, and Mr. W. W. Baustian of Lick Ob-servatory. The…
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