Every time life threw a hailstorm at Clyde, he built a telescope out of the wreckage. Meanwhile, I can't even fix a loose shelf.
A ’20s farm boy couldn’t afford a telescope, so he built one. Later, he discovered a planet.
Clyde Tombaugh, a Kansas farm boy who built a telescope from scrap farm parts, discovered Pluto at Lowell Observatory in 1930, a planet he was hired to find after sending his hand-drawn observations to the observatory.
Source: A ’20s farm boy couldn’t afford a telescope, so he built one. Later, he discovered a planet. — Upworthy
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