Bill Lear wrote: >
> > Interestingly, I just last night watched a bit of the PBS show "The > Journey to Palomar", about the building of the huge Hale telescope on > Mount Palomar, a staggeringly long-lived and risky project. It was > funded by capitalists (Yerkes, Rockefeller, Carnegie), but was not for > profit as far as I know. That wasn't investment, it was personal consumption. Same as donatins to the Metropolitan Museum of Art or to the building fund at the University of Chicago. Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
