The Franklin Institute - Flashback Friday! When The Franklin Institute's observatory opened in 1934, it had two telescopes. The one pictured here, a 10-inch Zeiss refracting telescope built by Carl Zeiss Jena
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Zeiss telescopio refractor de 40 cm a 5 metros de distancia focal, construido en 1935. Specola Vaticana, el Observatorio de Castel Gandolfo (Italia Fotografía de stock - Alamy
Just A Car Guy: Mr Stoody who invented the drill bit hardfacing process, and his mobile 9-1/2 inch Zeiss telescope mounted on his '32 Ford, to share the extremely rare amateur astronomy
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TENERIFE, SPAIN - JULY 3: Tourist visiting telescopes at interior of Teide astronomical observatory on July 3, 2015 in Tenerife, Canary Island, Spain Stock Photo - Alamy
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