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WalterBright
on April 17, 2020
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Hand Scraping a Truly Flat Plane (1908) [pdf]
When I was in high school, it was popular among some of the students to make telescope mirrors. The technique of hand-grinding them to incredible perfection was both simple and astounding.
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