Atop Mt. Wilson, retired engineers keep alive astronomy's 'Sistine Chapel'

[Jack-o-Lantern]

4. 60 years ago as a wee lad I bought and read a wonderful book called "Glass Giant of Palomar.

It was the complete story of the building of the 200 inch Hale telescope in 1934.
The book was fascinating from designing the mirror to selecting Pyrex glass for the mirror blank, to building a special rail car to transport the (“Giant Eye”) as the news media called it, from Corning New York to Cal Tech in Pasadena California where the grinding of the mirror to a perfect parabolic shape would take place.
With the reading of that book I was hooked, and I have been an amateur astronomer ever since.