Fwd: Brashear Telescope Factory Time Capsule Found and Opened

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From: "FOTZeiss" <FOTZnewsletter@planetarium.cc>
Date: Mar 25, 2015 5:07 AM
Subject: Brashear Telescope Factory Time Capsule Found and Opened
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Brashear Telescope Factory Time Capsule Found & Opened   Yesterday (March 24), Al Paslow, a member of the Antique Telescope Society, and members of a demolition crew opened a time capsule, a small brass box sealed with solder, that had been placed inside a cornerstone of the now-demolished Brashear Telescope Factory building on the North Side of Pittsburgh. The building, built in May of 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2012, was originally the home of the John A. Brashear Company which had manufactured hundreds of telescopes and precise scientific instruments for observatories and scientific institutions throughout the world, in the latter part of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.   More: http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2015/03/brashear-telescope-factory-time-capsule.html   gaw Glenn A. Walsh, Project Director, Friends of the Zeiss < http://friendsofthezeiss.org > Electronic Mail - < siderostat1989@yahoo.com > SpaceWatchtower Blog: < http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/ > Copyright © 2015 Friends of the Zeiss, All rights reserved. This Friends of the Zeiss Newsletter provides the latest news and information regarding Astronomy, Space Science, and related sciences, as well as news regarding Pittsburgh's original and historic Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. Our mailing address is: Friends of the Zeiss P.O. Box 1041 Pittsburgh, PA 15230-1041 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences