CSPAN Lick Observatory July 13, 2024
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...