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 Meade Telescopes HistoryFounded in 1972 and public since 1997, Meade is a world leader in the design and manufacture of telescopes and accessories for amateur astronomers. The Company's innovative and technologically advanced products are recognized to be among the best in the world. The Beginning - pt.2In 1978 Meade Instruments took on its most formidable challenge to that date: the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope market. Development of the original Meade Telescopes model 2080 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain required three years and all of the financial and engineering resources that the company had at its disposal, notwithstanding the significant growth that the company had experienced in the late-'70's. But we were determined to develop the state of Schmidt-Cassegrain design, a design that we strongly felt had overpowering advantages for the serious amateur, but one that was not being technically well-advanced due to an absence of competition. With the announcement, in September, 1980, of the Model 2080, Meade Instruments began to grow rapidly. Each year thereafter saw new and exciting Meade telescopes models and accessories, as Meade led the way in telescope technology for the serious amateur. By 1986 Meade Instruments was generally acknowledged as the largest, and certainly the leading, manufacturer of serious telescopes in the world. By 1995 in virtually every country in the world where serious telescopes are sold, more Meade telescopes were sold than all competing telescope models combined. |
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