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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1936.

THIS MYSTERIOUS UNIVERSE

First Description Of The Great Telescope Now Under Construction

In America:

MIRROR TO BE THREE YEARS

IN THE MAKING

Pasadena, California.

I have just seen the largest glass dise in the world? It weighs 40 tons and measures nearly 17 feet in diame- ter. It is probably the most important piece of glass ever moulded, for it may reveal secrets of the universe. hitherto hidden from the of man, writes a corres pondent.

MOUNT PALOMAR

The observatory сп Mount Palomar and the gigantic mount. ing for the mirror will be com- pleted at least a year before the mirror is ready, Dr. Anderson told

Within four years thla mam- | universe" theory. This astronomi- moth slab of fused quartz will be cal investigation will be carried on ti arısformed into a 200-inch probably with the aid of a spécial mirror for a tightly telescope. spectroscopic tens recently design - twice As large as the presented by the British Scientific · In- largest at the Mount Wilson strument Research, Association. Observatory at Pasadena Call- fornia The disc has just arrived from New York, where it was moulded. and now rests in

the optical laboratories of the Call- fornia Institute of Techology at Pasadena. For more than thras years it will be ground. polished. and tested with painstaking care. It will then be taken 85 miles by road up a lofty mountain nearly 5000 feet in elevation to its final home on Mount Palomar. Ca'i- fornia. there to begin its scrutiny gastronomical mysteries unsolv-

ble with preserit telescopes.

ANDREW CARNEGIE AND

MOUNT WILSON

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Yet all this might

have been

So great is the

TO-DAY'S

RADIO PROGRAMMES

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W, ON 355 METRES

12:30 to 2.15 p.m.-European pro- 6.30 p.m.-News and Economic Re-

gramme.

view in English.

Surte (Ketelbey)

13.43 p.m.-Military Band Music.

1 pm-Local: Time Signal and

Weather Report·

12.30 p.m.-"In a Fairy Realm" | 5.45 p.m.-Collegium Justicum.

A Cheerful Musical Affair with Text by Herbert Witt and Music by Gunter Neumann. 8.45.p.m.--News and Economic Re-

view in German. p.m.-Concert of Light Muse, pm-News in English-Sign ut

DJQ.

1.03 p.m.-Peter Dawson (Bass-

Baritone).

1.15 p.m.-Relay of the Hong Kong

Hotel Orchestra.

1.30 o.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins

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Rugby Press News, Local: Wea- ther forecast. time and an-

nouncements.

8.15 p.m.-Greetings to our laten-

ers...

8.20 p.m-Concert of Light Music

(continued).

1.40 p.m.-Relay: Hong Kong Hotel 0 p.m.-Sign off DJA and DJ3.

Orchestra.

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

4 to 7 pm.-Chinese programme.

7 to 11.45 p.m.-European pro-

gramme. 7 p.m.-

From the Studio

A Recital by candidates of the recent. Trinity College piano-

forte Examinations,

PROGRAMME

1. Gigue in B Bat Minor.-Mac- Dowell-Mary Braga (Senior). 2. Nocturne in D flat (Rowley)- Maureen A. Moir (Diploma). 3. Warum Schumann-Beatrice

Go (Senior).

4. Hungarian Dance No. 5.-

Brahms.-Ha Yuen Wan (High-

er Local).

77.30 p.m.

me. This to allow, for complete check of the elaborate and dell. cate Instruments. need for accuracy in astronomical observations that the new tele- scope's mounting will be rigid and Inassive enough to bear the weight of an observer in a small chamber 8 at the upper end of the tube, This chamber will have a regulat- ed temperature so that the obser- vation work will not be affected even by the heat from the obser-

Impossible had not a poor scottish, yer's body.

me

lad left his home in 1848 to try I asked Dr. Anderson why Mount his luck in the. United States. Palomar was chosen as the site for That boy was Andrew Carnegie, the telescope. He informed whose great wealth established that the mountain, compared with and maintains the important Mount Wilson. is equally free from astronomical work at Mount Wil-fog and has an equal number of son Observatory, without which clear nights during the year, but the 200-inch reflector could hardly has the additional advantage of have been possible. Although being far from any large city. money for the new telescope, is The reflection from the myriad being supplied by the Rockefeller lights and dust of Los Angeles. 15 endowment, technical advice and miles away, he explained, inter- active co-operation is being given leres with observation of the by astronomers at the Mount | southern skies hy the 100-inch Wilson Observatory.

reffestor on Mount Wilson,

time

it

Perhaps it was because a Sent "Won't it be Inconvenient to had made possible the work at travel 85 miles from your head- Mount Wilson that I was able, to quarters in Pasadena every obtain for "The Glasgow Herald" you vis't the "observatory?" I asked the first official photographs of him. the 200-inch mirror. taken in the

"Yes, that is a handicap" he California Institute laboratles. by answered. "but I don't think Ferdinand Ellerman. photographic will be long before we are using specialist of Mount Wilson Obser- aeroplanes to fly back and forth vatory. "The Glasgow Herald." We have a landing field planned la able to publish the first and at Mount Palomar to meet this .. only official sketch of the gigantismculty, and 'I don't believe it telescope as it will appear when will be very many years before we completed. The sketch was drawn astronomers will be using the sky by Russell

W. Porter, California for travel as well as for observà- Institute Associate and specialist tion. In optical and instrumental de- signing.

DR. EDWIN HUBBLE'S VISIT

When in 1940 this "Queen Mary" of telescopes begins her voyages through the oceans of space the scientific world will follow its journeys with an interest trans- John A. Anderson, executive officer cending all national boundaries. of California Inst tute Observatory Accustomed to gating upward at Council, who is supervising the the glory of

I have just been informed by

the stars. seeking

LY

Light Orchestral Selections

With a Song in my heart.---Sym-.

phonic Rhapsody (Eric Coates) Potpourri of Waltzes (Kobrecht), Traumerel (Schumann, arr, Wal-

ter). William Tell-Andante (Rossini). Homage March (Haydn Wood), Concert Waltz Joyousness

(Hayd Wood),

p.m.-Local: Time Signal, Wen-

ther Report, Stock Quotations. and Announcementa---| 8.03 p.m.-

ነነ

"From the Studio

A Recital by Walter H. Billing (Baritone) accompanied by C. Dudley Bartlett.

PROGRAMME

3.

1. Roadway.—Hermann Lohr. 2. To Anthea-Hatton.

3. O'Mistress Mine.-Roger Qu!I-

ter.

4. Brow Blow thou winter wind-

Roger Quilter.

5. A Song of Walting-Ellen

Wright.

6. Tally Ho!-Franco Leoni. 8.20 p.m.-

Planoforte syncopations by Patricia Rossborough

1. Anything Goes--Selection. 2. If I Love again.

3. Jill Darling--Selection.

4. Please Teacher-Selection. 5. Broadway Melody of 1936-

Selection. 8.40 p.m.

Famous Marches

Rakoczy March Damnation of

Faust (Berlioz).

Pomp and Circumstance March

No: 1 (Elgar).

Pomp and Circumstance March

No. 4 (Elgar).

El Abanico-March (arr. Hume). Colonel Bogey (Alford). p.m.-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announce, ments (Copyright by Reuter." 9.20 p.m.--"Casta Diva" (Queen of Heaven)" Norma " (Bellini) sung by Ina Souez (Soprano).

construction of the new telescope ever to to probe further into the 9.30 p.m.

that Sir James Jeans and Sir

the vast deepa of

universe. Arthur Eddington, the eminent

astronomers and physicists will physicista, are expected to visit awa't news of what lies in ce'es- California to inspect the work "on

tial regions 1:200 000.000.- light! the giant reflector, Bir James is

years distant with an eagerness research" associate of Mount dwarfing the "sturm und drang" Wilson Observatory, and both he of this tiny planet's political con- and Sir Arthur have visited Moun Wilson previously.

T

British scientists probably will hear full details of the construc-'

fusions.

LIGHT

Nor will the common man, to

:. From the Studio

Hawaiian Music played by the

"Moana Beach Boys." 9.50 p.m.--

Concert Waltzes

Vienna Bon Bons (Strauss). Child, you can dance ilke my wife

(FAR).

Dollar Princess-Waltz (Fall),

tion of the telescope when Dr.whom abstract mathematics and 10 p.m.-Big Ben from Daventry. Edwin Hubble, the noted Ame. astronomy must remain ever my- Dance Music.. can astronomer and asociate of sterious, escape the consequences į 11.15 p.m.-

Mount Wilson Observatory, ter

of this telescopic Columbus: tures at Oxford this summer. Dr. Gallico's speculations. Newton's Bubble was one of the first Rhodes discoveries, and Einstein's theories Scholars, Dr. Anderson to'd me did not fall to affect the very life Dr. Hubble has ligh hopes that and thought of their generations. the new telescope will reveal im-

Religion and philosophy have portant scientific data in connec tion with the "Expansion of the been Influenced profoundly by the

observations of science,

Ministers

13 the pulpits of Olasgow a gene- ration hence may be referring to unwearyingly gleaned

THE DARWIN STAMP hundred miles from the South ced the development of his theory ten centavos the famous, giant tor- statistics

American mainland, are famous or the origin of species.

London, May 17.

I have just received the set of six Ecuador stamps issued to com- memorate the centenary of Dar- win's visit to the Galapagos Islands writes à collector.

The islands, which lie some six

for their peculiar flora and fauna, for 00 per cent of the reptiles, 40 per cent of the plants, and. 37 per cent of the shore fish are found nowhere else in the world.

The islands fascinated Darwn, who spent September and October of 1835 there, and greatly induen

THE BEAGLE

Of the six stamps which form the set, two have geographical designs and show a map of the archipelago and a picture of the islands.

The ve centavos stamp shows the unique marine iguana and the

to se (Spanish galapago) from upon the California mountain top. which the islands take their name. for. under the leadership of Although he never visited the such men as 8: James Jeans. islands, Columbus appears in the science is turning its back on a

one sucre stamp.....

mere mechanistic explanation of and is kneeling Darwin himself, with a small the universe picture of HMS. Beagle, appears humbly before a new and divine of the command. on the 20 centavos stamp, illustrat- uncertainty, ed here.

which is: "Let there be Light."

A Eclay from Daventry

Great Britain v. USA. A run

ning commentary on the Inter- national Polo Match. From Hurlingham,

11.45 p.m.-Close down.

BERLIN PROGRAMME

4.55 pm-Call DJQ. DJA, DJB

(German, English). Gerine Folk Song.''

5 pm-Quintet for A Wild In-i

struments and Piano in E flat major by Beethoven, Mem- bers of the Berlin Philhar- monic Orchestra.

(Germ. Engl.).

9.05 p.m.-Call DJA, DIB. DIN.

(Germ.. Engl.)

German Folk Song.

9.10 p.m. Oreetings to our Listen-

ers in India.

9.15 p.m.-News and Economic Re-

view in German on DJA, DJB DJN.

9.30 p.m.-Woman's Hour: Con-

sultation Hour. 9.45 p.m.-New German Legislation.

Dr. Fritz Schwiegk.

10 pm-News and Economic Re- view in English on DIN and in Dutch on DJA, DJB,

10.15 pm-To-day, in Germany.

Sound Pictures.

| 10.30 - p.m.-The Kaleidoscope of

Opera.

Conductor: Fritz Wicke.

11.45 p.m.-Julius Weismann: "Chamber Music" for Piano, Flute and Viola, Maria and Rolf Ermeler, Karl

Wentzel.

Th

13 midnight-Close DJA, DJB. DJN

(German, English)

EMPIRE RADIO

TRANSMISSION Z

"The following frequencies will de used.-..

GSH 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 m.) - GSG 17.79 Mo/s 116.88 m.)

7 pm.-Big Ben, Quentin Maclean, at the Organ of the Trocadero Cinema, Elephant and Castle; London.

7.15 pm The BBC Empire Or- chestra; deader, Daniel Melsa; conductor, Eric Fogg. Over- ture, The Horatli and. Curatii **Cimarosa), Suite. Antique Dances and Airs: (1) Balleto (2) Villanella (3) Gagliardo (arr. Respight). Danse ma.. cabre (Saint-Saens), Twɑ An- tique Sketches: (1) Scaphe (2) Dryads (Ingelbrecht), Danae (Debussy, orch., Ravel. Ballet musle from Hamlet, Lu fete du printemps:

vil- (1) Danse lagepise (2) Pas des chasseurs (3) Pantominę (4) Vale mazurka (5) Scene du bouquet (6) La Freya (7) Strette Bnale (Thomas).

8.15 p.m.-A Recital.

8.30 p.m.-"A Lady Loved a wine."" A play written for broadcast- ing. by J. B. N. Sewell. Pro- duction by William MacLurg.

§ p.m.-Greenwich Time Signal.

9 p.m.-The News and Announce-

ments.

9.30 p.m.Variety. 9.45 p.m.-Close down.

TRANSMISSION 3

The following frequencies will be used:-

GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 m.) GBF 15.14 Mc/s 19.82 m.). asb 11.75 Mc/s (25.53 m.) (from 11.30 p.m. to close),

10 p.m.-Big Ben, A Recital By Jean Inglis (Pianoforte). Fan- tasy in C minor (Bach), Le coucou (Daquin). Noel (Bal- four Gardiner), (Albeniz).

10.15

p.m.-The

Beguidillas

Bournemouth

Municipal Orchestra: leader, Bertram Lewis; conductor, Richard Austin. So Violon- cello, Charles Hamburg. From the Pavilion, Bournemouth. Overture, Der Freischutz (Weber). Violoncello Concello Concerto in A minor: (1) Allegro non troppo (2) Al- legretto con moto (3) Tempo primno (Saint-Saens). Sym- phony No. 3) in E fat (Eroica); (1) Allegro con brio (Beethoven). 11.15 p.m.-Great Britain v. USA A running commentary on the International Folo Match. From Hurlingham, 11.46 pm. Musical Interlude. -

At- 11.58 pin-The News and

nouncements, Midnight-Greenwich Time Signal.. 12.15 a.m.-The BBC Dance of- chestra, directed by Benty Hall.

*

12.30 am-"Down to the Sea in Ships Bea Communicationis: (2) The Question at Instié," Bir ́Alan Anderson, GBE. |-12.50-am-The BBC Dance

chestra (contra).

1 a.m.-Close down.

Dance