The Perfect Machine

The 200-inch Palomar Telescope, an unparalleled marvel of scale and precision, features a seventeen-foot mirror hand-polished to an incredible 2/1,000,000-inch tolerance. As massive as the Pantheon and heavy as the Statue of Liberty, its construction pushed human ingenuity, ignited societal fears, and captivated a nation. Ronald Florence chronicles this "perfect machine's" dramatic creation, the birth of Big Science, and a poignant vision of Depression-era America reaching for the stars.

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