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- Beginning in 1926, he built several telescopes with lenses and mirrors by himself. [ 10 ]
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Beginning in 1926, he built several telescopes with lenses and mirrors by himself. [10] To better test his telescope mirrors, Tombaugh, with just a pick and shovel, dug a pit 24 feet long, 8 feet deep, and 7 feet wide.
The first telescope he ever owned was bought from Sears. By 1925, Clyde was dissatisfied with his store bought telescope and decided to build one for himself. Clyde's father took a second job to pay for the materials needed to build it.
Feb 15, 2013 · Unimpressed with store-bought telescopes, Tombaugh constructed his first telescope at the age of 20, grinding the mirrors himself. Over the course of his life, he would build more than 30...
Jan 17, 1997 · Clyde Tombaugh, a 24-year-old student and the discoverer of the planet Pluto, looks over a Newtonian reflecting telescope he built in 1928. The mount for this telescope was built from part of the crankshaft from a 1910 Buick and discarded parts from a cream separator.
Feb 16, 2021 · The first telescope he built was an 8-inch reflector, constructed with pine board tubes and repurposed farm machinery. Without a temperature-constant environment to test the telescope in, the final product fell short of Clyde’s expectations.
Since his teenage years Clyde had been an avid amateur astronomer and a gifted telescope builder. Based on instructions contained in an article from a boy’s Sunday school paper, he built a series of telescopes of increasing power and quality on the family farm.
Clyde Tombaugh: the astronomer who discovered Pluto | BBC Sky at Night Magazine.
