Ingalls A.G. Amateur Telescope Making Advanced (Book Two): A Sequel to Amateur Telescope Making (Book One)

Kingsport: Kingsport Press. – 1952. – 650 p. Amateur Telescope Making (ATM) is a series of three books edited by Albert G. Ingalls between 1926 and 1953 while he was an associate editor at Scientific American. The books cover various aspects of telescope construction and observational technique, sometimes at quite an advanced level, but always in a way that is accessible to the intelligent amateur. The caliber of the contributions is uniformly high and the books have remained in constant use by both amateurs and professionals.Having to do with the construction of optical instruments
Backwoods Philosophy — Everest
Mirror Making Technic
Sub-diameter Tools
Making and Using Metal Tools — Clark
Metal Mirrors and Flats
Astigmatism — Warner
Prisms, Flats, Mirrors — Ferson
Small-scale Prism Production
A Quantitative Optical Test for Telescope Mirrors — King
Performing the Ronchi Test Quantitatively
The Hartmann Test — Calder
Flats — Selby
Notes on the Optical Testing of Aspheric Surfaces — Selby
How to Make Rouge — Selby
Small Lens Wrinkles — Porter
Making Eyepiece Lenses An Introduction to Small Lenses — Clark
Mainly on Making Eyepieces
Oculars at Small Cost — Patterson
The Refractor — Metal Parts and Mounting — Taylor
The Refracting Telescope — Principles of Operation and Construction — Haviland
Mainly on the Objective Lens
Target Scopes — Kirkham
For the Rifleman
Testing Convex Spherical Surfaces — King
Collimation and Adjustment
How to Make a Diagonal for a Newtonian — Hindle
Making Setting Circles
Telescope Drives — Lower
Drives for Larger Telescopes
Hand-Wound Spring Drives for Telescopes
The Springfield Mounting — Porter
The Springfield Mounting — Pattern Making — Porter
With Principles of Molding and Casting
Molding and Casting Springfield Mounting Parts — Ferson
Molding and Casting a Fork — Mason
Sidelights on Molding and Casting
Machining the Springfield Mounting — Porter
Motir Drives, Counterweighting, Pier — Springfield Mounting — Porter
The Building of a 19-Inch Reflecting Telescope — Young
The Schmidt Camera — Introductory — Russell
Theory and Design of Aplanatic Reflectors Employing a Correcting Lens — Wright
Including the Schmidt Camera
Notes on the Construction of an F/l Schmidt Camera — Lower
The Camera Obscura — Dall
Indoor Telescopic Vision — Terrestrial, Celestial
Converting a Seth Ihomas Clock into a Sidereal Clock — Bunvan
A Precision Clock — Souther
Making a Synchronome Clock
Micrometers
A Simple Chronograph — Hay
The Evaporation Process for Coating Astronomical' Mirrors — Strong
Having to Do with Silvering
The Amateur’s Observatory — Scanlon
A Bilateral Slit Mechanism — Barnes and Brattain Shorts
Building a Birefringent Polarizing Monochromator for Solar Prominences — Paul
Having to Do With Some of the More Practical Aspects of Observing
Researches with Our Instruments — Halbach
Definite, Systematized Uses for Telescopes
The Dewing of Optical Surfaces — Steavenson
Limitations of Vision with a Telescope — Dall
Atmosphere, Telescope and Observer — Douglass
Reflectors versus Refractors — Pickering
Wooden Tubes for Reflectors
Dealing with Spider Diffraction — Couder
The Richest-Field Telescope — Walkden