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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:36:08 EST


On this day in 1781 David Brewster was born in the Borders town of
Jedburgh,Scotland. Brewster made his first telescope at the age of ten and enrolled in
Edinburgh University when he was 12. His most popular invention, however,
was the kaleidoscope. He was knighted in 1832.
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