Labels:text | book OCR: A B MISO C BINOCULARS CANDLE D E F T HE EARLIEST binoculars C ANDLES were G were made in 1608 by Hans first made H Lippershey, the inventor of the 3,000 years ago I telescope. They consisted of two by dipping cotton K telescopes side by side. threads into animal Modern binoculars were first fat. However, they M produced in 1859 by a Frenchman were considered a luxury until the N named A. Boulanger, but the glass 17th century when affordable, mold- P prisms that he wanted were too poured candles were invented by a difficult to make at that time. It was French man named Sieur le Brez. R not until 1893 when Ernst Abbe, In 1824, Jean Cambaceres S owner of a glass factory, figured out patented the plaited wick. This fell T u a way of making the prisms, that off as it bumed, unlike earlier wicks, V binoculars really became popular. which had to be constantly trimmed. W X Y Z M Binoculars Candle S
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