Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory

Name: Undaunted: The Forgotten Giants of the Allegheny Observatory
Director: Dan Handley
Genre: Dokumentum
Released: 2012-04-18T00:00:00.000000Z
Duration: 62 min
Cast: Cain Alexander, Kurt Bell, Robert R. Bell, Len Caric, David Conrad

“A story of ingenious minds in a little known place, whose remarkable stories of tenacity and determination in the pursuit of furthering science and technology have nearly been forgotten.”

20121h 2m

Dokumentum

Áttekintés

This film tells the surprising story of how the Allegheny Observatory has been a world leader in the study of the stars since the 1860s. Self-educated, and often facing unrelenting hardships, the people associated with the Allegheny Observatory defied the odds to make enormous contributions to the founding of astrophysics and early aviation.

#aviation #astronomy #observatory