 | March 28, 2008 | Welcome HI  |  | | |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | What's so special about today? Something interesting has happened on just about every date you can name. Here's one from this week:
Glass on a Train! March 26, 1936: A massive piece of glass is loaded on a train at the Corning Glassworks in New York to begin a long trip to California. It's a 20-ton lens that will be used at the new Mt. Palomar Observatory. The train stays under 25 mph so it takes almost two weeks and it's such a big deal that people line the tracks to watch it pass. Get the story on how the Mt. Palomar Observatory was built.
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