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Doru Dragan

28 Dec 2007 19:21



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His  career of honest, generous and disinterested man, ended by  a regrettable failure. He built the largest refractor ever made, for the Paris Great Exhibition  of 1900. The lenses of 49 inches (132 cm) of diameter were assembled at the end of a horizontal, long tube of more than 195 feet (62m) connected to a large siderostat. However, this realization turned out to be a financial disaster  that ruined the manufacturer, because it failed to run. 
O sa mai vorbim despre asta dupa sarbatori.