Warner & Swasey Company.
Founded by Worcester Reed Warner and Ambrose Swasey in 1880 to manufacture high-grade special machinery and machine tools. They set new standards for the manufacture of astronomical telescopes and other observatory equipment. They constructed, among others, the telescope for the Lick Observatory (1883), Kenwood Observatory, the U.S. Naval Observatory (1893), Yerkes Observatory (1897), Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Canada (1916), Argentia National Observatory (1926) and the Case Institute Observatory (1941).
From the description of Records, 1850-1919. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81892432
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| creatorOf | Warner & Swasey Company. Records, 1850-1919. | American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library |
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| associatedWith | Yerkes Observatory. | corporateBody |
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