Brashear, John b. November 24, 1840 d. April 8, 1920 Inventor. Born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, he was a master machinist and astronomer whom built his first telescope in 1870. He established the John Brashear Company, a workshop for astronomical instruments, internationally known as a maker of superb precision optics lenses. He built many instruments which included spectroscopes for the observatories at Allegheny, Lick, Yerkes and Princeton, G. E. Hale's first spectroheliograph and two photographic optics for Max Wolf in Heidelberg. The...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Allegheny Observatory, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
b. November 24, 1840 d. April 8, 1920