On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...
In late 1946 or early 1947 (nobody seems quite sure) a pair of ex-military engineers, Ogihara Akira and Ōtsuka Shintarō, started Orion Seiki Sangyō YK ("Orion Precision Products Industries") – a small ...