Brian G. W. Manning
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Brian G. W. Manning
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Brian George William Manning was an English astronomer who discovered 19 minor planets. He was born in 1926 in Birmingham. He constructed his first mirror from a piece of glass that a World War II bomb blew out of the roof of the factory where his father worked. He began as an engineering draughtsman but later became a metrologist at the University of Birmingham. In the late 1950s, he constructed an interference-controlled ruling machine in a home workshop, which was able to rule high-quality 3
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English astronomer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_G._W._Manning
date created:
2006-02-02T04:15:06Z
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2024-09-08T17:48:23Z
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