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First telescope
The first telescope was made in Germany in the 1608 by Hans Lippershey, the reason why they were created is “for seeing things far away as they were nearby.” -
Second telescope
The second telescope was made by Galileo Galilei in Italy in the 1609, and this made him discover the 4 largest moons of jupiter -
Third telescope
The third telescope was made in the 1616 again in italy by a priest and astronomer Niccolo Zucchi, and 14 years later he discovered the jupiter belts -
Fourth telescope
The fourth telescope wa's made in the 1630 by a German priest and astronomer Christoph Scheiner in Germany. -
Fifth telescope
The fifth telescope was made by Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens and inspired by Galileo and was made in the 1655.This telescope was also the the strongest telescope to see the solar system planets. -
Sixth telescope
The sixth telescope was made in the 1666 by Sir Isaac Newton to improve it. -
The seventh
The seventh was made in the 1672 by Laurent Cassegrain, a catholic priest from France.This instrument uses mirrors that are called hyperbolic and parabolic mirrors. -
The eighth telescope
The eighth telescope was made by English mathematician (and inventor of the octant) John Hadley in the 1721. -
The ninth telescope
The ninth telescope was made by lawyer Chester Moore Hall makes a lens to reduce chromatic aberration even further in the 1729. -
Tenth telescope
The tenth telescope was made by Bath (UK) Orchestra Director and astronomer William Herschel in the 1789 builds a telescope which is a gigantic 12-metres. It was the first of the giant reflector telescopes. -
Eleventh telescope
“Leviathan of Parsonstown” at Birr Castle in Ireland was built in this year by the Third Earl of Rosse, William Parsons in the 1845. It was the largest telescope ever built until the twentieth century. Parsons was the first person to see spiral arms on a galaxy! -
Twelfth telescope
The twelfth telescope was made in America by an American astronomer Alvan Clark and builds the world’s largest (at that time!) again.made in the 1897. -
Thirteenth telescope
The thirteenth telescope was made in 1937 and by Karl Jansky, an American engineer Grote Reber takes the telescope into a whole new dimension: the radio telescope. -
fourteenth telescope
The fourteenth telescope was made by Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell in the 1957.He planned a 76,2 meter radio telescope that could be pointed to anywhere in the sky in the 1950s. -
Fifteenth telescope
The Fifteenth telescope was made by NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the first telescope to be launched into space.Hubble gives us a very clear view of the stars and planets right to this very day!Made in the 1990 -
Sixteenth telescope
The Sixteenth telescope was made by The Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and its the first space telescope to look at objects that belch out high energy waves called gamma rays.Made in the 1991 -
Seventeenth telescope
The Seventeenth telescope was made by The W. M. Keck Observatory, a two-telescope astronomical observatory, made in the 1995 -
Eighteenth telescope
The Eighteenth telescope was made by William Herschel in the Herschel Space in the 2009.His space observatory is able to look into the really cold regions of space -
Nineteenth telescope
The Nineteenth telescope is in Spain, it's called The Gran Telescopio Canarias built on the island La Palma in the Canary
Islands of Spain on the top of a volcanic peak 7,438 feet above sea level. It is the largest telescope of our time.Made in the 2010
