But the 40-inch (1 meter) glass lens at Yerkes was soon made obsolete by larger mirrors. The Hooker 100-inch (2.5 m) reflecting telescope opened in 1917 at Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, Calif.

While there are several stories behind how the telescope came to be, the most settled upon one involves Dutch glassmaker Hans Lippershey in the 17th century (via Space.com).Glassmakers had been ...

Telescopes mean that we can look at the night sky as this woman lid before a solar eclipse in 2017 Credit: Reuters Who invented telescopes? Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, made the first ...

He learnt how to grind lenses, and all the other necessary skills, and soon made an eight-power telescope (that would make the image eight times larger) and a 20-power telescope.

Who made the first telescope? It's believed that the first person to patent a telescope was Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, in 1608.

Where an eight-inch amateur telescope with accessory widgets can cost $2,400, a basic eight-inch telescope can be made at home for $200. His telescopes have been replicated thousands of times, not ...

Telescopes mean that we can look at the night sky as this woman lid before a solar eclipse in 2017 Credit: Reuters Who invented telescopes? Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker, made the first ...