Early travels into space by a human eye looking through a tube with glass... One story about this early space travel by extending our view concerns a man,Henry Fitz a notable American telescope manufacturer. Froom wikipedia Fitz made forty percent of all the telescopes sold in the United States from 1840 to 1855. He also manufactured eighty percent of all astronomical telescopes made in the United States at this time. American made telescopes were significantly less expensive than comparable instruments from Europe. Manufacturing locally in the United States instead of Europe was an important factor in the proliferation of observatories in the nineteenth century in America.[1] Fitz contributed considerably in the development of astronomical photography. Making telescopes and related astronomical components was a labor of love for him. Often he would be found working after midnight. He was the best known American maker of telescopes and achromatic instruments before the Civil War en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Fitz
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