{"id":1705,"date":"2010-06-08T01:46:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2010-06-08T01:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T01:46:43","slug":"history-of-the-blink-comparator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1705","title":{"rendered":"History of the Blink Comparator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nBlink comparator, made welknown by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, originated from the early 1900s.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCarl Purfrich invented the stereo-comparator in 1900 and in 1904 he added a monocular microscope attachment to the comparator due to his lost of one eye sight, the blink comparator was born when he made the line of sight alternate between plates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Title:<\/strong> Notes on the History of the Blink Comparator<br \/>\n<strong>Authors:<\/strong> Drummeter, L. F., Jr.<br \/>\n<strong>Journal:<\/strong> Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 23,<br \/>\np.1347<br \/>\n<strong>Bibliographic Code:<\/strong> 1991BAAS...23.1347D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blink comparator, made welknown by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, originated from the early 1900s. Carl Purfrich invented the stereo-comparator in 1900 and in 1904 he added a monocular microscope attachment to the comparator due to his lost of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1705\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}