From the January 18, 1936, issue
By Science News
SCIENTISTS SHOWN MODEL OF SECOND-LARGEST TELESCOPE
A model of the 82-inch reflector telescope and the towering structure now being constructed for the McDonald Observatory atop Mt. Locke in west Texas was shown at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
“It would be hard to find any more eloquent example of the interdependence of the exact sciences than is represented in this telescope,” said Warner Seely, secretary of the Warner and Swasey Company, which designed the instrument. “The precision in design, construction, and operation of a telescope may be more obvious because of the distances involved, but the exactness which modern industry demands of machine tools is no less than that which science expects of its most delicate instruments.”