Friday, October 29, 2010

Binoculars

When I was a child, I thought binoculars are merely toys.  My grandmother would buy me  binoculars made of plastics that I could play with my playmates.  It comes in different lovely colors.   I didn't realize that there is something like steiner binoculars that is actually for professional use.

I am not very good in explaining but I as look at the picture, it's very obvious that it's created by  great minds. History claims that Phoenicians cooking on sand were the first to discover glass at around 3500 BCE.
Binoculars is an optical instrument used to magnify view of distant objects. Compared to a telescope a binocular has two identical telescopes for both eyes that is mounted on a single frame. The very first binocular telescope was invented by J.P. Lemiere in 1825.               

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