Records of the NRAO > Moving Images and Audio Recordings Series > Green Bank WV Unit

Collection Items

Description: John Findlay at the dipole in Green Bank, with panorama of mountains. Possibly the earliest NRAO movie and the earliest NRAO telescope.
Start Date: 1956

Description: Ground breaking for 140 foot
Start Date: 1958-08-14

Description: 140 foot shaft before moving
Start Date: 1959-09-16

Description: Breaking ground; Works area
Start Date: 1958-09-22

Description: Pedestal pour
Start Date: 1959

Description: Shaft, 140 foot
Start Date: 1959-08

Description: Polar shaft, 140 foot
Start Date: 1959-08-13

Description: Moving 140 foot shaft
Start Date: 1959-09-25

Description: Moving 140 foot shaft
Start Date: 1959-09-25

Description: Original 140 foot shaft, rail siding to Matheny Store
Start Date: 1958

Description: Ditch and forms for 140 foot construction
Start Date: 1958

Description: Pouring cement for 140 foot pedestal
Start Date: 1958

Description: Welding at 140 foot
Start Date: 1958

Description: Good pour with stiff legs
Start Date: 1958

Description: Moving 140 foot shaft
Start Date: 1958

Description: 140 foot shaft moving on highway
Start Date: 1958

Description: 140 foot shaft
Start Date: 1958

Description: Aerials: foundations of lab building, 140 foot
Start Date: 1958

Description: 140 foot construction
Start Date: 1958

Description: 140 foot construction
Start Date: 1958

Description: Shaft, 140 foot
Start Date: 1958

Description: 140 foot shaft moving down Route 28
Start Date: 1958

Description: Work on 85 foot site; leveling and grading parking area, digging test boring
Start Date: 1957-10-15

Description: 85 foot control building
Start Date: 1958-04-01

Description: 85 foot control building
Start Date: 1958-04-16

Description: 85 foot control building
Start Date: 1958-04-16

Description: Pouring foundations of 85 foot telescope
Start Date: 1958-05

Description: Foundation of 85 foot telescope
Start Date: 1958-05

Description: 85 foot control building
Start Date: 1958-05-14

Description: 85 foot telescope foundation
Start Date: 1958-05-21

Description: 85 foot and corner reflector
Start Date: 1958-07-22

Description: 85 foot erection
Start Date: 1958-07-29

Description: 85 foot steel construction
Start Date: 1958-07-30

Description: Corner reflector and polar axis alignment
Start Date: 1958-08

Description: Unloading 85 foot
Start Date: 1958-08-08

Description: Bridge repair and 85 foot
Start Date: 1958-09

Description: Bridge reinforcement on Rt. 28, 85 foot
Start Date: 1958-09

Description: 85 foot, late September or early October 1958
Start Date: 1958

Description: 85 foot - Dave on hook; 140 foot hole
Start Date: 1958-10-02

Description: 85 foot; 140 foot foundation; residence hall
Start Date: 1958-10

Description: 85 foot; 140 foot foundation; residence hall. October-November 1958
Start Date: 1958

Description: 85 foot [leaning?]; 20 foot
Start Date: 1958-11-06

Description: 20 foot; 85 foot
Start Date: 1958-11-06

Description: 85 foot completion of lower framework and arrival of polar axis; feed support and declination axis
Start Date: 1957

Description: Welding 85 foot foundation, lifting 85 foot D&C gear
Start Date: 1957

Description: 85 foot, first girder for antenna backup structure
Start Date: 1957

Description: 85 foot telescope gear teeth
Start Date: 1957

Description: 85 foot telescope gear teeth
Start Date: 1957

Description: Foundation construction, 85 foot building; M. Gum, M. Kerr
Start Date: 1957

Description: 85 foot telescope, color
Start Date: 1957

Description: Site, October-December 1957
Start Date: 1957

Description: Visit of Pawsey and Mayer; work on new office and 85 foot site
Start Date: 1957-10-15

Description: Helicopter
Start Date: 1957-10-17

Description: Visit to Hangar [Sod?]
Start Date: 1957-10-27

Description: Views of site; David S. Heeschen at site on skis
Start Date: 1957-12

Description: NRAO site model
Start Date: 1957-12-30

Description: Houses on site; LRB [Lloyd R. Berkner], RME [Richard M. Emberson]; FCC [Frank C. Calendar]
Start Date: 1958-04-02

Description: Control building, etc.
Start Date: 1958-06-18

Description: Works area
Start Date: 1958-09-08

Description: Finished last 20 foot pour
Start Date: 1959-04-17

Description: CHA surveying and staking on hillside, Jim Elliott, Basil Gum
Start Date: 1957

Description: Lab construction (fair-poor)
Start Date: 1957

Description: Residence hall (fair-poor)
Start Date: 1957

Description: Water tank construction (fair-good)
Start Date: 1957

Description: Green Bank High School
Start Date: 1957

Description: Residence hall and lab
Start Date: 1957

Description: Residence hall progress
Start Date: 1957

Description: Control building and cable pulling
Start Date: 1957

Description: John Balston, derrick
Start Date: 1957

Description: Heads - unlabeled
Start Date: 1957

Description: Tails - unlabeled
Start Date: 1957

Description: Drag line: beginning excavation of ??
Start Date: 1958

Description: 41274 tape of radio sources, Pulsars-Jupiter-Sun - WR Oref
Start Date: 1957

Description: 49582-8-9 - 100 foot reels 1 and 2 - undated
Start Date: 1957

Description: Astronomy film test - undated
Start Date: 1957

Description: National Guard - undated
Start Date: 1957

Description: Pouring foundation - May 26 [no year]
Start Date: 1957

Description: July 22 [no year, no title]
Start Date: 1957

Description: In plant - BW and neg
Start Date: 1958

Description: Unlabeled film on oversized reel
Start Date: 1957

Description: The Lift
Start Date: 1964

Description: Filmed by Peter B. Good for NRAO/AUI.
Start Date: 1964

Description: Filmed by Peter B. Good for NRAO/AUI. Used as an informational film in the Green Bank Visitor Center.
Start Date: 1964

Description: Used as an informational film in the Green Bank Visitor Center. Features Morton S. Roberts.
Start Date: 1967

Description: Used as an informational film in the Green Bank Visitor Center. Written and produced by Seth Shostak, Robert O'Connell, Dick Sramek.
Start Date: 1975

Description: A Quarter Century of Science on the Meridian: The 300' Telescope.
Start Date: 1987

Description: 300 Foot Telescope 25th Anniversary Celebration, 23 and 25 September 1987
Start Date: 1987-09-23

Description: Green Bank Telescope: Packing Bearing
Start Date: 1995-05-01

Description: Green Bank Telescope: 102 Ton Elevation Shaft Placement
Start Date: 1995-05-02

Description: Green Bank Telescope: Raising of the 90 ton Shaft
Start Date: 1995-05-03

Description: Green Bank Telescope Dedication Ceremony
Start Date: 2000-08-25

Start Date: 2000-08-25

Description: Pre-tour auditorium film for the Green Bank Science Center in West Virginia.
Start Date: 2002

Time-lapse: Construction of the Green Bank Telescope, February 1993 - July 2000
Description: Time lapse video (25 seconds) showing the construction of the Green Bank Telescope, created using photographs taken daily during the GBT construction process.
Start Date: 1993-02-00

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