![]() ![]() Typically composed of two component sights, one at the rear and one at the front, iron sights were tough, adjustable and reliable – to the extent that almost a century after the first rifle scope was developed infamous Finnish sniper Simo “White Death” Hayha still preferred iron sights. Prior to the invention of the telescopic sight those using firearms, even for precision applications, had relied on iron sights. Galileo Galilei famously constructed his own version the following year for observing celestial objects, and in 1668 Isaac Newton built the first modern telescope. ![]() The origins of the telescopic sight must be traced to the invention of the telescope itself, which is attributed to a Hans Lippershey, a Dutch spectacle maker, who submitted a patent to the government of the Netherlands in 1608. One new technology which underwent its baptism of fire during this conflict, and has become a feature of every battlefield since, was the telescopic sight, commonly referred to as a scope. The bloody battlefields of the American Civil War revolutionized many aspects of warfare, from the use of railroads and the telegraph, to the deployment of submarines.
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