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The first person to apply for a patent for a telescope was Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey (or Lipperhey). In 1608, Lippershey laid claim to a device that could magnify objects three times.
Those with a rudimentary understanding of history might claim that it was Galileo Galilei who invented this device. ... and it's thought that his telescope was the first one to observe the heavens.
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 ...
But the first documented actual working telescope was delivered by Hans Lippershey, a spectacle maker from Middelburg, in Zeeland (south of Holland) to Prince Maurice of Nassau in The Hague. This ...
But it's unclear who invented the microscope. Some historians say it was Hans Lippershey, most famous for filing the first patent for a telescope.Other evidence points to Hans and Zacharias ...
Bicycles were made out of wood when they were first invented in 1817. Before electric refrigerators, "iceboxes" were made of wood and filled with ice. The first electronic digital computer took up ...
This year marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s use of a telescope to study the skies. The 66-year-old Noe, who worked on laser detection systems used in the Vietnam-era Paveway smart bombs ...
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 ...
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