Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1931, Page 82

80,000 square feet of ground. The Statue of Jupiter at Olympia, of the Greek sculptor Phidias, the 6. The Tomb of King Mausolus at Halicar- massus in Asia Minor, the original mausoieum, a pillared and sculptored pile rising 140 feet seventy—in fact, innumerable monuments that may even impress this industrial and scientific era on the future as an outstanding stage in the progress of mankind. It is a simple matter for you merely to look ‘The gamut of modern wonders is almost in- exhaustible. But suppose you confine yourself omly to those wonders of today that can be compared in a way with the famous seven wonders of the distant past—acknowledge feats of art and seven modern engineering wonders of the New World? What great accomplish- ments of today, considering man’s proportion- ately greater knowledge and facilities, can be maiched in similar proportion with the great Pyramid of Cheops, for instance, or the other #ix feats of the Old World? CHO!CEofthemnmmbeuumm ' inconclusive. But, on the premise that one selection i8 as good as another, here’s a suggestion: 1. The Mississippi flood prevention work, which will cost $325,000,000. 2. The $165,000,000 Boulder Dam, Colorado River and All-American canal project, with possible addition of the $150,000,000 water sup- ply line to Los Angeles. 3. The 200-inch telescope for Mount Wilson Observatory, which will cost a mere $6,000,000, but which will reach millions of miles into the unknown. 4. The electrified Cascade Tunnel system, $ight miles long, and costing $25,000,000. 6. The skyscrapers of New York, climaxed by the $50,000,000 Empire State Building and the $500,000,000 Radio City and amusement center, Btill on paper. 6. The $365,000,000 Panama Canal and its mmlsed parallel waterway through Nicaragua, t might run up to a billion dollars. 7. The new Hudson River Bridge, cost $60,- 000,000, or the Golden Gate Bridge, cost $35,000,000. The list is not put up in order of importance. That would be too much of a drain on any mind. And it isn’t final, either. THE SUNDAY STAR, WAS evenWon' The Tower of Babel wouldNIuweybe’:n @ puny toy if placed beside New York’s new Empire State Building, which covers two acres and towers 1,248 feet above Fifth avenue. The dam is going up in Black Canyon, on the Colorado, about 25 miles east of Las Vegas, Nev., right on the Nevada-Arizsona border. Tow- ering nearly 200 feet higher than the Wash- ington Monument, it will be 737 feet above bed rock, and will stretch 1,235 feet across the top. While the dam alone will take nearly three years to build, the entire project will take seven years and will cost $165,000,000. It will take a year and a half to fill in the immense artificial lake that will be formed behind it—115 miles long, almost equal in area to Lake Erie, afford- ing views of rugged country rivaling that of the Grand Canyon. Completed, the project will supply water to American werships side by side PRI | How the Enging Dwarfed in Beauty W orks Looked Upon a Man Could E A drawing showing the preaen.t 2 ment on Mount Wilson, which will 7,000,000 acres and will prevent floods in plant at the foot of the dam will deliver up million horsepower of hydro-electric energy. more than half of it constantly available. Remember its size and its possibili ho on Remembering that a lght year is equal to 6,000,000,000,000 miles, we shall learn of stars through this telescope 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 —six quintillion—miles away! This will be made possible not only by the immense quartz mirror, 200 inches in diameter, that has already taken more than two years to complete, but by means of & larger “inter- ferometer,” which will be able to measure the, “thermocouple,” which is so sensitive that it will detect a star 631 times fainter than the faintest star man can see with his unaided eyes. Thus millions more stars, nebulae and galaxies will be revealed to the astronomers ° through this new telescope. Not only that, but, getting closer to earth, the new “eye” will be able to examine more closely the face of the moon, the composition of our sun and