Porter Garden Telescopes :
 Earliest numbered example

 Reproduction effort by Telescopes of Vermont (I am not affiliated with this)



Dave Groski's Solar Page :
 Main page



Mirrors of Dave Rowe's pages "
 drowesmi

 aplanatic



Making a pitch lap :
 Pitch lap



Webpage documenting the construction of a brickoven for baking, pizza, etc. :
 Main page



The life work of Walter J. Semerau (incomplete) :
 Article



Digital pictures of copies of original blueprints for Hale's spectrohelioscope (each is about 200Kb) :
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Pictures of pieces of a Hale spectrohelioscope :
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Photos of Alvan Clark and workshop from "New England Essays" (roughly 130Kb each) :
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Author index for "Sidereal Messenger", early ApJ, etc.  (as of late '02) :
 main page



"English Mechanic" :
 Hastings/Hastings-related contributions

 Brashear contributions

 Elger contributions

 Petitdidier contributions:
 Vol 58, p371 (265K)

 Vol 58, p372 (387K)

 Vol 59, p371 (395K)

 Vol 65, p338 (405K)

 Vol 65, p339 (354K)



Guy Brandenberg's translation of Leon Foucault's paper :
 Article



Profile of Wilbur Perry in Popular Science, May 1953 :
 first page

 second page

 third page

 fourth page



Russian ATMing literature :
 Sample pages from Navashin's book



My backyard observatory :
 "Plus Ultra" (More Beyond)



Text of poster paper : Antique Telescope Society's 2002 meeting, Dublin, Ireland
 Dublin, 2002 (plain text)

 Dublin, 2002 (MS Word)



Mirror of Dave Rowe's Spherometer page
 Making and using a three-ball spherometer



"Mechanix Illustrated" :
 List of ATMing articles, 1933-1965



John M. Pierce mirror grinding and telescope making articles :
 Articles by John M. Pierce, from "Science & Mechanics," 1933-1934 and elsewhere



Maksutov Circular information :
 Date/Issue number listing of the Maksutov Circulars 49K
 Subject/Author indexing of the Maksutov Circulars 734K (MS Word)


Roof Prism Gang Newsletters :
 under construction


Sir William Herschel's mirror-making experiments :
 under construction


O. L. Petitdidier, master optician of the late 1800's and early 1900's :
 Picture of solar diagonal

 Picture of eyepieces and finder



Info relating to Ingalls' ATM books :
 Listing of different of editions 4K
 Reconciled table of contents for different printings 255K


Old articles :
 Annals of Science articles relating to telescopes (does not include article on Craig telescope) 4.5Meg
 Henry Draper article (MS WORD format) 5.0M
 Brashear on polishing rock salt 10K


Herschel-related :
 Wm Herschel description of a binocular telescope effort 760K
 A letter by John Herschel regarding a portrait of his father
 Pages 1,4 225K
 Pages 2,3 225K


Misc. :
 Local weather-related info

 Parts list and wiring diagram for a trash compactor 177K
 Design for handle to turn the alt/az knobs on the Meade SuperWedge 82K
 A description of my adjustable spherometer

 Adventures in programming SBIG's ST-4 autoguider

 LunarGOTO - Matt's version

 AddPix 27K


 HP Photosmart programming (the original one)

 Programs I wrote to access the Photosmart scanner.
 (These were early efforts and are pretty kludgy, but they worked for my purposes)


 Single 53K
 MultScan 38K
 Contact 43K