A Man Who Loved the Stars
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A Man Who Loved the Stars

The Autobiography of John A. Brashear

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Man Who Loved the Stars

The Autobiography of John A. Brashear

About this book

The inspiring story of a man whose avocation as a stargazer and vocation as a millwright led to his development of lenses, mirrors and other astronomical apparatus. John A. Brashear's technological advances were later employed by astronomers in the United States and Europe. Brashear also attracted the friendship and financial support of astronomer Samuel Lagley, railroad magnate William Thaw, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Carnegie, who gave him $20,000 for the construction of Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction by James V. Maher
  3. Foreword by Edna A. Yost
  4. Preface by John A. Brashear
  5. I. Ancestry and Boyhood
  6. II. Seeking a Vocation: Religion and Marriage
  7. III. Astronomy and Music
  8. IV. Making the First Telescope
  9. V. Life in the Iron Mills
  10. VI. Making the Twelve-Inch Reflector
  11. VII. Home and Friends
  12. VIII. Going into Business for Myself
  13. IX. The Rowland Diffraction Gratings
  14. X. Rock-Salt Prisms and Other Work
  15. XI. The New Shops and William Thaw
  16. XII. First Trip to Europe
  17. XIII. Trip to Great Britain
  18. XIV. The Old Allegheny Observatory and Professor Langley
  19. XV. The New Allegheny Observatory
  20. XVI. Life at Muskova
  21. XVII. Educational Activities
  22. XVIII. Third Trip Abroad
  23. Appendix