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An industrial arts teacher named Lawrence Sauter suggested building a telescope on the roof of Hopkins High School. Even crazier: Sauter and a group of students planned to build the telescope themselves.
That idea turned out not to be so crazy, though. Sauter and his students completed the Volkswagen-sized telescope by 1955.
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