The Polar Axis Shaft for the 140-foot telescope at Green Bank arrives at Bartow for offloading in September of 1959. The telescope was completed in the spring of 1965 and was the largest equatorially mounted telescope in the world. Pocahontas Co. Historical Society Collection, ID: PHS002748
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