World's largest steerable radio telescope - An artist's impression of the radio telescope now being built for Manchester University by Messra Husband & Co. of Sheffield, at Jodrell Bank Experimental Station near Crewe. The cost will be about £430,000 jointly borne by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Nuffield Foundation. The new radio telescope will have a paraboloid aerial with a diameter of 250 feet, a height of 185 feet to the top of the horizontal axis, and will weigh about 1,5000 tons. The new telescope will enable regions of the universe to be explored for the first time by the new techniques of "radio astronomy'Â. Since the war the technique of radar and radio, applied to astronomy, have yielded a series of discoveries about the universe. In this field of radio astronomy the pioneering work or research scientists at Manchester and Cambridge Universities has given Great Britain a prominent position. The present fixed radio telescope at Jodrell Bank, though the largest in the world, is inadequate to carry o research to all region of the sky, and the University scientists asked for the new telescope to be constructed. Photo Shows: A perspective view of the new steerable radio telescope which is to be built at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire.
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