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The original telescope soon proved inadequate for Mr. Lincoln's needs, and he commissioned the building of a larger, six inch refracting telescope by the Warner and Swasey Company of Cleveland Ohio with the optics being ground by the John A. Brashear Company off Pittsburgh Pennsylvania for a total cost of $1,920.00. When it arrived at Hildene in the summer of 1909, several courses of brick had to be added to the observatory walls to accommodate the larger instrument.
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