abstract:A Tower telescope is a telescope with a large refraction length at which the tube is installed inside a tower. Tower telescopes are mainly used for examinations of the sun.
Among those ideas, as I described on this post a while back, was getting real world objects, from the Jodrell Bank telescope, to the Isle of Wight ferry, to Tower Bridge, to tweet.
In her chapter on Galileo, Ferguson tells us that the arrogant, self-promoting Italian did not invent the telescope, and it is doubtful he conducted the legendary display of dropping weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.