Books by "John Fritz Medal Board"
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Presentation of the John Fritz Gold Medal to Ambrose Swasey by the John Fritz Medal Board of Award, April 23, 1924
by John Fritz Medal Board
1928
The inspiring story of a man whose avocation as a stargazer and vocation as a millwright led to his development of lenses, mirrors and other astronomical apparatus. John A. Brashear's technological advances were later employed by astronomers in the United States and Europe. Brashear also attracted the friendship and financial support of astronomer Samuel Lagley, railroad magnate William Thaw, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Carnegie, who gave him $20,000 for the construction of Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh.