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| Restoration of a 1916 Warner & Swasey Telescope |
| Alan Sliski |
| Thursday, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:00 PM |
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| ATMoB and Antique Telescope Society member Alan Sliski’s talk will cover a few aspects of the restoration of a 1916 Warner & Swasey Telescope, and the history around the telescopes made by Warner and Swasey. The idea of first designing, then making, instruments with standard interchangeable parts was pioneered by machine tool builders in the Connecticut River Valley. The telescope that Alan is restoring is a wonderful example of Industrial Art from the Turn of the Last Century, and inspired what we call Steampunk today.
Speaker Bio
Alan Sliski is an inventor with 28 patents. He is an expert in new and old-school electronic, medical, mechanical, and optical research & development. Some of Alan’s major interests are radiation therapy system design, precision measuring systems for the physical sciences, analog electronics, servo systems, magnetics, electron optics, high vacuum, and light optics. He is also very interested in restoring antique telescopes, and is an active member of the Antique Telescope Society.
Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at Changsho, 1712 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting. |
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