The telescope that launched the space age, and changed the world

This short video reflects on the importance of the first telescope in an astronomy career. After a brief introduction of his first telescope, Robert introduces the viewer to another first telescope, hidden away high among the cobwebs on the wall of a museum. A telescope that did not just change the life of the schoolboy who received it as a gift from his mother, but changed everyone else's lives as well. Presented by Robert J Dalby FRAS