From: "John Lynch" 
To: russjocoy{at}hotmail.com, atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "John Lynch" 


Russell,

There's a really good book that was written in 1994 (still available in
paperback) by Ronald Florence entitled "The Perfect Machine: Building
the Palomar Telescope", which gives a relatively accurate historical
account.  It's worth reading, because it goes into detail about the
technologies that had to be developed (aluminiz- ation, casting, massive
structures like the Surrier truss, attempt at a quartz disk by General
Electric, etc.).  Also the motivation, funding and politics behind the
whole thing are described.

John Lynch

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