Hans Lippershey is associated with the invention of what?
Hans Lippershey (1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because he was the first one who tried to obtain a patent for it. It is, however, unclear if he was the first one to build a telescope.
Hans Lippershey is known for the earliest written record of a refracting telescope, a patent he filed in 1608. His work with optical devices grew out of his work as a spectacle maker, an industry that had started in Venice and Florence in the thirteenth century, and later expanded to the Netherlands and Germany.
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Glynis Rix
I worked it out looking at the ruff in the picture!
illonabird
Using the same logic, I was able to come up with the right answer as well.
Irene Townsend
Going by the picture, Television, Torpedoes and Vucanized Rubber were not around then.
jack patti go
Boy! Did I miss this one!
Char
cwisconsin, if you read the explanations it says just that.
Char
Got that one
docluci
Good guess
lmjmom
Got it.
John W Shreve
Marcella Kosse, I hate when that happens to others.
Marcella Kosse
Guessed correctly. I love when that happens.
ninakamwene
Missed it
Ilias Tsiabardas
I figured out with the picture ,it had to be the telescope
Jennifer Dyster
Picture was the give away. Had to roughly Galileos time.
Lynne Zeman
1st patented- not 1st invention.
G.
Galileo did NOT invent the telescope, he actually read about it and was the first to use it to look at celestial objects and then record what he was one of the first to see. If anyone told you that he invented the telescope they LIED to you, or, at the very least were also highly mistaken. Look up your facts Peter before being so convinced.