The Strange Story of the Bird-Jones Telescope (One Designer Was Blind!)

This documentary will touch your soul, showing how perseverance eventually led to a couple of best friends inventing a new commercial telescope. This is the complete history of the Bird-Jones telescope, invented over a period of time from 1957 through 1976. In this video, I show you the three inventors lives and how they changed the telescope world, despite one of them being blind. Also included is a compressed history of telescopes.
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Summary:
This video is a documentary about the history of the Bird-Jones telescope, as it was invented by R.T. Jones (NASA), Thomas Bird, and Al Bowen.