This was also the site of a radio telescope, built in the 1960s, in nearby Dennistoun, by one of the pioneers of radio astronomy, Grote Reber.
Reber sold his telescope to the National Bureau of Standards, and it was erected on a turntable at their field station in Sterling, Virginia.
Reber Radio Telescope is a parabolic radio telescope built by astronomer Grote Reber in his back yard in Illinois in 1937, implementing an earlier proposal of Karl Jansky, the discoverer (1931) of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way.
George Grote | Grote Street, Adelaide | Grote Street | Grote Markt, Haarlem | Grote Markt | Grote | John Grote | Grote Reber | Grote (disambiguation) | Arthur Grote | Verwey hall from the Grote Houtstraat looking north. The street level is in use by shops and a restaurant, and the upper levels are accessible from the entrance near the Vleeshal. Along the top of the facade are the words "Modern Art" and the more famous names in Haarlem Modern art | Roland Reber | Mutinous troops of the Army of Flanders ransack the ''Grote Markt | Grote Hollandse Waard |