Contents
Introduction by James V. Maher
Foreword by Edna A. Yost
Preface by John A. Brashear
I. Ancestry and Boyhood
II. Seeking a Vocation: Religion and Marriage
III. Astronomy and Music
IV. Making the First Telescope
V. Life in the Iron Mills
VI. Making the Twelve-Inch Reflector
VII. Home and Friends
VIII. Going into Business for Myself
IX. The Rowland Diffraction Gratings
X. Rock-Salt Prisms and Other Work
XI. The New Shops and William Thaw
XII. First Trip to Europe
XIII. Trip to Great Britain
XIV. The Old Allegheny Observatory and Professor Langley
XV. The New Allegheny Observatory
XVI. Life at Muskova
XVII. Educational Activities
XVIII. Third Trip Abroad
Appendix