From the hardscrabble fields of Kansas, a young man named Clyde Tombaugh fashioned a telescope from farm salvage and sent his hand-drawn planetary sketches to a professional observatory — not as a credential, but as a question. The answer came back as an invitation, and on February 18, 1930, that invitation led to the discovery of Pluto, the outermost world then known to humanity. His story belongs to the long tradition of those who, denied the formal gates of knowledge, simply built their own door.
Farm boy's homemade telescope led to Pluto discovery
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