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Blue plaque № 29312

Norristown, PA, United States

Rittenhouse Farm. David Rittenhouse, colonial scientist, astronomer, and instrument maker, lived on a nearby farm, where he built a telescope, said to be first made in America, and observed the transit of Venus in 1769.

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