THE HAMILTON ASSOCIATION, 36 
SYNOPSIS OF LECTURE ON PANAMA SEA. LEVEL 
WATERWAY. 
Delivered before Hamilton Scientific Association, February 
28, 1905, 
BY W. R. WARNER, F. R. A. S,, OF CLEVELAND. 
Mr. Adam Brown introduced the lecturer as follows: 
I regard it a very high honor to preside at a meeting at which 
so distinguished a man as Professor Warner is to speak. Seldom 
has Hamilton been honored as it is to-night. Mr. Warner is head 
of the firm of Warner & Swayze, Cleveland, Ohio, who are manu- 
facturers of fine machinery. What I mean by fine machinery is 
not that it is necessarily small machinery, because they manu- 
facture the most ponderous things; but all, large or small, that 
comes out of the hands of the firm has the stamp of neatness and 
accuracy. They are manufacturers of mathematical and physical 
instruments, and the largest telescopes in the world have come 
from this firm. That wonderful Yerkes telescope, which 
so many of us saw at the World’s Fair in Chicago, was made by 
them, as also the Lick telescope. They are great naval telescope 
manufacturers, and also of transit instruments for taking time; 
and it is from instruments made by Warner & Swayze that the 
time is flashed through the world. The magnificent telescope, 
which has just been sent to Ottawa, was the product of their fae- 
tory, and when we Canadians look through that splendid instru- 
ment we will think of our friend Mr. Warner. 
His firm are also manufacturers of range finders for war- 
ships. You may want to know what a range finder is. In the 
case of war, when a vessel of the enemy comes in sight, the range 
finder of the war-ship on the watch discovers the exact distance 
she is away, everything is adjusted, a button is touched, then 
