Meadow Farm

Meadow Farm Museum at Crump Park 
3400 Mountain Road 
Glen Allen, VA   23060
(804) 652-1455
MeadowFarm@henrico.us

http://henrico.us/rec/places/meadow-farm/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Farm

In 1713 William Sheppard acquired the property of Meadow Farm by land grant. Not much is known about the use of the property until William’s great-grandson, Mosby Sheppard, built the existing house in 1810. Later the property was acquired by Dr. John Mosby Sheppard.

Seven generations of the Sheppard family lived at Meadow Farm.

In 1975, Elizabeth Adam Crump, wife of the late Adjutant General of Virginia, Sheppard Crump, donated the property of Meadow Farm to the County of Henrico and it was opened to the public as Meadow Farm Museum/ Crump Park in 1981.

Although restoration had been completed in the late 1970s to preserve and interpret Meadow Farm, damage from Hurricane Isabel in 2003 presented the County an opportunity to re-examine documents pertaining to the original house construction. Mosby Sheppard and his son John Sheppard built Meadow Farm in phases. Both men carefully documented the purchase of building materials and labor for work done between 1809 and 1858. During the restoration process, museum staff interpreted in detail the material, labor, and expense involved in constructing a home in 19th-century rural Virginia.

This picture shows the additions to the house. 

A rare picture of the BACK of the house.

Original home built in 1810. 

FAST

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_hundred_meter_Aperture_Spherical_Telescope

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Heavenly Eye" or "The Eye of Heaven"), is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China. 

 It is the world's largest filled aperture (single dish) radio telescope

The basic design of FAST is similar to the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope. Both are fixed primary reflectors installed in natural hollows, made of perforated aluminum panels with a movable receiver suspended above. 

The FAST dish is significantly deeper, contributing to a wider field of view. Although 64% larger in diameter, FAST's radius of curvature is 300 m (980 ft), barely larger than Arecibo's 270 m (870 ft), so it forms a 113° arc (vs. 70° for Arecibo.) Although Arecibo's full aperture of 305 m (1,000 ft) can be used when observing objects at the zenith, the effective aperture for more typical inclined observations is 221 m (725 ft).

China is also planning a particle accelerator seven times more powerful than CERN's LHC.

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