25 Aug
2014
25 Aug
'14
5:50 a.m.
I thought some of the ATMs on the list would get a kick out of my latest historical "find". http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/440921-classic-ashtrays/?p=6176776 It's at least 80 years old, with a direct connection to Russell W. Porter, and probably handled personally by his second-in-command at Stellafane at the time, John M. Pierce. It's a safe bet that had not Porter and his friends started the telescope-making movement in America back then, the face of amateur astronomy today would be very, very different.