Saturday, September 4, 2021

Basic timeline of telescopes


Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, NASA

This post is a basic timeline of the telescope. There are 25 events listed below chronologically.

  • First use of eyeglasses in Northern Italy (13th century)
  • Patent for the telescope is submitted by Hans Lippershey (1608)
  • Improved telescope invented by Galileo Galilei (1609)
  • Theory of telescopes provided by Johannes Kepler (1611)
  • Reflector telescope built by Isaac Newton (1668)
  • Improved reflector telescope is constructed by Laurent Cassegrain (1672)
  • Achromatic lens telescope built by Chester Moore Hall (1733)
  • Achromatic lens telescopes is commercially produced by John Dollond (1758)
  • Silvering glass mirror telescope built by Leon Foucault (1857)
  • Yerkes Observatory refractor is constructed (1897)
  • Ritchey-Chretien variant of reflector telescope is invented (1910)
  • Hooker Telescope is constructed (1917)
  • Radio telescope is constructed by Grote Reber (1937)
  • Hale Telescope is constructed (1948)
  • Ultraviolet telescope Orbiting Solar Observatory is launched (1962)
  • X-ray telescope experiments begin (1962)
  • Gramma-ray telescope OSO 3 satellite is launched (1967)
  • International Ultraviolet Explorer is launched (1978)
  • IRAS satellite is launched (1983)
  • Cosmic Background Explorer is constructed (1989)
  • Hubble Space Telescope is launched (1990)
  • Keck Telescope is constructed (1993-1996)
  • Large Millimeter Telescope is constructed (2006)
  • Gran Telescopio Canarias is constructed (2008)
  • James Webb Space Telescope planned launch (2021)

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