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His memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could finally Start Building this building. And then, by 1886, they finally knew how big the telescope would be. The lenses were done being made and...

Businessman in the San Francisco bay area back in the 1800s. His fortune was over 3 million back in the 1860s. And he wanted to be remembered. And george davidson, the president of the California Academy of sciences and george madera, an astronomer, who showed him what saturn looked like through a small telescope, were some of the factors that convinced him that a scientific monument that would make great discoveries was the right way to go. So he decided he wanted the greatest telescope superior to any in existence constructed as his memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the ...

Any in existence constructed as his memorial and gave about 700,000 of his fortune to form the Lick Observatory and this telescope is his monument. The construction of this observatory took quite a long time and actually started in the 1870s. Mount hamilton was an unoccupied mountain. There was no road to the top. So they convinced Santa Clara County to build a firstclass road to the top of Mount Hamilton and that started in 1876. By 1888, the Road Construction was done and they could finally Start Building this building. And then, by 1886, they finally knew how big the telescope would be. The...

At that time was settled by the spaniards. They had two different establishments at the time. Places populated by the military, and you had the missions that where established by the franciscan priests. They were up and down the california from the san diego to all the way up to San Francisco at the time. You had no the city type of establishment. During that time, you had a lot of native americans running throughout california. It was the attempt of the spaniards to settle and originalize the settlers, they native americans that were established here. At this time, you had intrusions from the...

The adoeb. Is the last remaining structure of the pueblo. In the mid1770s, california at that time was settled by the spaniards. And they had two different establishments at the time. You had operated and founded by the military. And then you had the missions that were established by the priests. Up and down the california from san diego up to San Francisco. At the time. Until that time you had no civil basically a city type of establishment. And so during that time you had a lot of native Americans Still running throughout california. And it was the attempt of the spaniards to try and settle ...