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Brashear Telescope Factory Time Capsule Found & Opened
Yesterday (March 24), Al Paslow, amember of the Antique Telescope Society, and members of a demolitioncrew opened a time capsule, a small brass box sealed with solder,that had been placed inside a cornerstone of the now-demolishedBrashear Telescope Factory building on the North Side of Pittsburgh.The building, built in May of 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, was originally the home of theJohn A. Brashear Company which had manufactured hundreds oftelescopes and precise scientific instruments for observatories andscientific institutions throughout the world, in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
More: http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2015/03/brashear-telescope-factory-time-capsule.html
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| SpaceWatchtower: Brashear Telescope Factory Time Caps...Photograph, from August of 1894, of the employees of the Mechanical Department of the John A. Brashear Company, which produced telescopes and other precise sci... |
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