Re: New 10" Newtonian Telescope Being Created

chris.b_at_mail.dk
Date: 01/01/05 

Date: 1 Jan 2005 14:01:19 -0800

a) If you have patentable ideas then the last thing you want to do is
disclose them.
b) If you really need help designing something so simple as a
telescope, then you know nothing of the subject matter.
c) Telescopes have a very long history. If something hasn't been
invented by now, ask yourself what you can possibly offer, that huge
numbers of great minds, with vastly greater experience haven't managed
to come up with already over theree centuries?
d) If your ideas are so inspiring I can assure you that once your
patents are granted "they" will come to you.
e) Other inventors (successful or otherwise) are much too secretive and
paranoid to share their ideas with you. Why should they? When they can
obtain their own patents and try to profit from them themselves?
f) You don't need a computer to design a telescope. You need a pencil,
possibly a pair of compasses and a few sheets of A4 and inspiration.
g) Telescope manufacturers are governed by real world customer needs
and real world engineering costs.
h) Have you read all the books on telescopes in all the common
languages, studied all the relevant magazines from (say) the last 150
years and studied all the telescope designs in and out of existence?
(From roughly the 17th century to the present day)
i) Have you studied all the patents (granted and applied for) related
to telescope design in all the major centres across (at least) Europe
(E & W) Asia and the American continent?
j) Are you qualified in any area of engineering, mathematics, optical
design or fabrication which would convince investors of you abilities?
j) What track record do you have for inventive ideas?
k) Having a patent doesn't mean you can make money from it. Unless
someone wants what it does, at a price they can sell a desirable
product for, without massive investment in R&D.(or paying an exorbitant
sum to get the patent rights from you)
l) Unless there is a huge demand, or a huge profit to be made per item,
you are not going to get rich, in a short time, from making or deigning
telescopes. Not even if you are a genius like Roland. (Roland who?) :-)

m) Telescopes are very small beer in world full of vast oceans.
n) Have you read the book:"Unusual Telescopes" By Peter.L Manly?
o) I'm a terrible cynic. Convince me that your post isn't simply a
troll.

Best of Luck in 2005
Chris.B