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Amateur telescope-making is a cult with some 20,000 devoted addicts. With homemade equipment, they work at a hobby that requires a very high degree of workmanship-grinding telescope mirrors which must be accurate to two-millionths of an inch (TIME, Aug. to, 1942). The man who taught most...
Glass Polishers. Two years ago Stargazers Porter & Ingalls marched into the Frankford Arsenal with an opportune proposal. The Army desperately needed workmen to make roof prisms for field and anti-aircraft guns and other military instruments. Porter & Ingalls said that amateur telescope-makers, who had years of experience in just...
The Arsenal doubtfully doled out 2-4 pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up...
In February the land was deep in snow. At the railhead three Americans swung off the twice-weekly train 500 miles up from Edmonton. They paused for hot coffee in one of the Chinese restaurants and headed north. They were Fred Capes, construction expert for the Public Roads Administration, and...
Most of this was on small stations, the kind you can hear only if your radio is placed at the right angle and with the antenna just so. There are also four programs of records on local stations, of which none is the 920 Club and one is the Crimson...