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An 1847 Merz and Mahler telescope got some love from a Missouri astronomy club and now local people can take a look at the stars they way scientists did the year Thomas Edison was born. Fun fact - it operates with a falling weight clockwork mechanism, meaning that without any electrical power a mechanism inside the telescope turns at the exact same speed as the rotation of the Earth, keeping the object in the lens in view for up to 45 minutes.
