• A woman sits in a bucket to be brought up a solar tower.
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    Astronomer Phoebe Waterman Haas using a bucket lift to ascend the Mt. Wilson 46-meter (150-foot) Solar Tower, circa 1910. Image from page 15C of the Phoebe Waterman Haas Photo Album, 1909-1914.

  • A woman sits in a bucket to be brought up a solar tower.

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1910

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