Telescope engineer Sam Palmer at the point of no return for our move from Columbia to the Center for Astrophysics in 1986. He is using a jigsaw to cut through all the cables that ran from the 1.2 m control room on the 14th floor of the Pupin Physics Laboratories to the telescope on the roof above. The green foam on the walls was for sound proofing.
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