In 1917, solar astronomer George Ellery Hale convinced Millikan to begin spending several months each year at the Throop College of Technology, a small academic institution in Pasadena, California that Hale wished to transform into a major center for scientific research and education.

The observatory contains two historically important telescopes: the Hale telescope built in 1908, and the Hooker telescope, which was the largest telescope in the world from its completion in 1917 until 1948.

The Hale 100-inch mirror for Mount Wilson Observatory on its way up the Mount Wilson Toll Road on a Mack Truck in 1917.

The era of the large glass-mirror reflector had begun, with telescopes such as Andrew Ainslie Common's 1879 36 inch ( 91 cm ) and 1887 60 inch ( 152 cm ) reflectors built at Ealing, and the first of the " modern " large glass mirror research reflectors, 60 inch ( 150 cm ) Mount Wilson Observatory Hale telescope of 1908, and the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Mount Wilson Hooker telescope in 1917.

Saint-Gobain cast the glass blanks of some of the largest optical reflecting telescopes of the early 20th century, including the ground-breaking Hale telescope ( online in 1908 ) and 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker telescope ( online 1917 ) at Mount Wilson Observatory ( USA ), and the Plaskett telescope ( online in 1918 ) at Dominion Astrophysical Observatory ( Canada ).

Gen. Wilber E. Wilder ( 25 August 1917 ), Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale ( 6 October 1917 ), Brig.

Gen. Wilber E. Wilder ( 15 December 1917 ), Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale ( 1 March 1918 ), Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale ( 5 June 1918 ), Maj. Gen. Harry C. Hale ( 21 July 1918 ), Brig.

In 1917 the 100 " Hooker Telescope became operational and would be the world's largest telescope until the opening of the 200 " Palomar Hale Telescope in 1948.

The Spanish Mission Revival entrance structure was designed by architect Kenneth McDonald Jr. For the decorative stone castings, McDonald hired Italian-born sculptor Federico A. Giorgi, who had created-tall statues of elephants and lions for the 1917 epic film Intolerance and crafted the exterior of downtown's Million Dollar Theater.

TCCA hired an ad agency and began campaigning in 1917 in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Portland.

" New personnel were hired, and by the New York campaign of 1917, the Sundays had a paid staff of twenty-six.

Maclean hired Thomas B. Costain as editor in 1917.

In 1912, he was hired to reorganize the Liberal Party of New Brunswick, and became a Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) again in 1917.

The major meatpacking plants hired blacks as strikebreakers in 1917.

In early 1917 she was hired by director Fred Balshofer and given a prominent role in his Paradise Garden opposite popular screen star Harold Lockwood.

Taylor left Arlington, and the property owners hired John B. Dodson to establish a third military academy for the 1916 – 1917 school year called Arlington Military Academy.

In 1917, the committee hired a real estate agent named Mr. Barnes to negotiate the purchase of a site in Burkeville, Virginia.

Involved with show horses for a number of years, in 1917 Edward McLean purchased thirty-two racehorses and hired trainer H. Eugene Leigh.

In some cities, they were hired as strikebreakers, especially during the strikes of 1917.

In 1917, meanwhile, the Universidad de Tucumán hired the pianist Manuel Gómez Carrillo to conduct ethnomusicological research in Santiago ( Veniard 1999 ).

The biggest difference between the draft established by the Selective Service Act of 1917 and the Civil War draft was that a substitute could no longer be hired to fight in a man ’ s place.

Hannover hired Hermann Dorner, formerly of DFW as chief designer in September 1917, with his first design being a two-seat fighter, the Hannover CL. II.

When he had finished school he was hired as an apprentice at the Sydfyenske Jernbaner railway company who also hired him as a railway worker in 1917 when he had finished his apprenticeship.

Ieoh Ming Pei ( born April 26, 1917 ), commonly known as I. M. Pei, is a Chinese American architect, often called a master of modern architecture.

Two other hotels which shared the same architect, in this case Ludwig Heim ( 1844 – 1917 ), were the 68-room Hotel Bellevue ( sometimes known as the " Grand Hotel Bellevue "), built 1887-8, and the 110-room Palast Hotel, built 1892-3 on the site of an earlier hotel.

The Alt-Bayern in Potsdamer Straße was erected by architect Wilhelm Walther ( 1857 – 1917 ) and opened in 1904.

The main campus buildings at Valhallavägen in Östermalm, by architect Erik Lallerstedt, were completed in 1917.

A sensitive restoration of the origial adobe Mission was undertaken in 1917 by noted architect Willis Polk.

Re-chartered in 1917, Kingsport was an early example of a " garden city ", designed by city planner and landscape architect John Nolen of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

* Emmanuel Masqueray ( 1861 – 1917 ), architect

Working in association with his partners, first Henry Dangler who died in 1917, and then Robert Work, Adler wasn't registered as an architect in Illinois until 1929, which was after he had already been elected to the American Institute of Architects.

The building, designed by architect Lewis P. Hobart, was built during 1908-1910 and enlarged in 1917.

* Robert Young ( architect ) ( 1822 – 1917 ), Irish architect

Ettore Sottsass ( 14 September 1917 – 31 December 2007 ) was an Italian architect and designer of the late 20th century.

Sottsass was born on 14 September 1917 in Innsbruck, Austria, and grew up in Milan, where his father was an architect.

Built in 1917, it was named after its financier, John Mason Little and was designed by famed architect Clarence Blackall.

In 1917, she moved to her Irvington-on-Hudson, New York estate, Villa Lewaro, which had been designed by Vertner Tandy, the first licensed black architect in New York State and a founding member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

It's noted for its interior, which was extensively remodelled in 1916 and 1917 by noted architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh for businessman Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke as his first marital home.

Following his return to Paris in January 1917, he was employed by the engineering firm of Considère, Pelnard et Caquot, specialists in concrete, and he graduated as an architect of the French Government ( DPLG ).

Starr Gideon Kempf ( August 13, 1917, Ohio – 1995, Colorado Springs, Colorado ) was a sculptor, architect, and artist best known for his graceful steel wind kinetic sculptures.

The station was built in 1917 and opened the following year, from an Arts and Crafts design by the subway's chief architect, Squire J. Vickers.

Vickers, chief architect for the subway system, designed the station in 1917.

He met the Swiss architect and painter Charles-Edouard Jeanneret ( Le Corbusier ) in 1917, and they jointly expounded the doctrines of Purism in their book Après le cubisme.

* Laurie Baker ( 1917 – 2007 ), architect,

* Selby Clewer ( 1917 – 2001 ), architect