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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Telescope. (search)
Telescope. Telescopes were first constructed in the Netherlands about 1608. In 1853 Alvan Clark, of Cambridgeport, Mass., a comparatively unknown portraitpainter, after having experimented from 1846 in grinding lenses, succeeded in turning out a glass superior to any made elsewhere in the world. He and his sons went on making large and larger instruments, till they ground the 36-inch telescope for the Lick Observatory, in California, and the son, Alvan G., made the 40-inch Yerkes telescope for the observatory of the University of Chicago, erected at Williams Bay, Wis. The movable part of the latter, which turns on the polar axis, weighs about 12 tons, and the clock weighs 1 1/2 tons. The refracting telescopes of the Naval Observatory, at Washington, 33 feet long, and at the Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia, both made by Alvan Clark & Sons, have a 26-inch aperture. The largest reflecting telescope in the United States is at Harvard University, 28-inch mir
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
Kentucky, Judge Evans sentences O'Neill, Locke, Crites, and Mullen to three years in the Nashville penitentiary and to pay a fine of $100 each for conspiring to prevent negroes from voting at the November (1899) election......April 25, 1900 The United States Supreme Court, in the case of Taylor against Beckham for the governorship, decides that it has no jurisdiction. Taylor vacates the office and leaves the State......May 21, 1900 Republicans in convention in Louisville nominate John W. Yerkes for governor......July 16, 1900 Democrats in convention in Lexington nominate J. C. W. Beckham for governor......July 21, 1900 Caleb Powers, Republican claimant for the office of Secretary of State, on trial at Georgetown for conspiring to murder Senator Goebel, is found guilty and his punishment fixed at imprisonment for life......Aug. 18. 1900 Judge Cantrill, of the Scott county circuit court, grants Caleb Powers an appeal......August, 1900 The legislature meets in extrao
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wisconsin, (search)
rthern Wisconsin......1894 Peter Parkinson, last survivor of Black Hawk War, dies......March 30, 1895 Chief-Justice Harlow S. Orton dies......July 4, 1895 Milwaukee celebrates its semi-centennial......Oct. 16, 1895 State census taken, giving Wisconsin a population of 1,937,915......1895 Gen. Lucius Fairchild dies......May 23, 1896 Milwaukee celebrates centennial year of her settlement. Free travelling-library system initiated by Senator J. H. Stout......1896 The great Yerkes telescope dedicated at Lake Geneva, Wis......Oct. 21, 1897 Semi-centennial of Wisconsin as a State celebrated......June 28, 1898 Wisconsin raises and equips four regiments for American-Spanish War.......1898 Great strike of wood-workers at Oshkosh, accompanied by rioting and bloodshed......1898 Disastrous forest fires in northern Wisconsin during September; many lives lost......1898 Milwaukee public museum opened in new building......Jan. 23, 1899 Wisconsin Historical Soci