Bausch & Lomb Company gave the University of Colorado a 10.5-inch refractor, formerly the ... of Fiske Planetarium in 2013, the telescope was removed with plans to refurbish it and put it on exhibit ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

FitzRandolph Observatory was constructed in 1934 to replace the Halsted Observatory. In 1966, a 36" reflecting telescope replaced the old 23" refracting telescope that had been in use since 1882.