Telescope Patented - November In History

November 11, 1851--Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his son George received the patent on their first telescope, made out of a broken dinner bell. They later went on to make gigantic telescopes for astronomers and observatories that are still in use today.

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