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Notes on Hans Lippershey's unsuccessful telescope patent in 1608. The first record of a telescope comes from the Netherlands in 1608. It is in a patent filed by Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey with the States General of the Netherlands on 2 October 1608 for his instrument "for seeing things far away as if they were nearby." [12] A few weeks later another Dutch instrument-maker ...
A claim will be made 37 years later by another Dutch spectacle-maker that his father, Zacharias Janssen, invented the telescope. [17] A replica of Galileo's telescope. 1609 — Galileo Galilei makes his own improved version of Lippershey's telescope, calling it a "perspicillum".
1960 – Owens Valley 27-meter radio telescopes begin operation, located in Big Pine, California; 1961 – Parkes 64-metre radio telescope begins operation, located near Parkes, Australia; 1962 – European Southern Observatory (ESO) founded; 1962 – Kitt Peak solar observatory founded; 1962 – Green Bank, West Virginia 90m radio telescope
On July 28, 1962, he publicly unveiled a new invention, a portable 18 + 3 ⁄ 4-inch Cassegrain telescope, at the party held by the Los Angeles Astronomical Society on Mount Pinos. [3] The new transportable telescope proved so groundbreaking that Johnson's invention was featured on the cover of a 1963 issue of Sky & Telescope. [3]
Zacharias Janssen; also Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632 [1]) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg.He is associated with the invention of the first optical telescope and/or the first truly compound microscope, but these claims (made 20 years after his death) may be fabrications put forward by his son.
Hans Lipperhey [a] (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey, [b] was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker.He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. [1]
Bernhard Schmidt. Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (11 April [O.S. 30 March] 1879, Nargen, Estonia – 1 December 1935, Hamburg) was an Estonian [1] optician.In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope, which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure ...
30 m telescope, operated by the University of Tasmania: Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST) Molonglo (near Canberra, Australian Capital Territory) 600–1200 MHz Operated by the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. East-west arm of the former Molonglo Cross Telescope, approximately 1.6 km in length. Operates at 843 MHz.