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How to Make a… TELESCOPE.
- Source :
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Popular Mechanics . Sep2016, Vol. 193 Issue 7, p72-74. 3p. 1 Color Photograph. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The article discusses how Mike Clements, a telescope enthusiast built an amateur telescope and his inspiration behind it.It tells us how Clements developed interest in Telescope making after visiting the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles and how he built his first telescope from a toilet-paper tube and his father's eyeglasses.He then built the world's largest amateur telescope which is thirty-five feet tall, weighs four thousand pounds and consists of 70-inch mirror.
- Subjects :
- *TELESCOPE design & construction
*TOILET paper
*EYEGLASSES
*MIRRORS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00324558
- Volume :
- 193
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Popular Mechanics
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 123106902