Telescopes of Vermont is a small family company founded by Fred Schleipman, an inventor and engineer from Norwich, Vermont and his son Russ Schleipman, Creative Director and Marketing operations. Mr Schleipman senior was driven by a passion to reintroduce to the world a most unusual telescope. Originally designed in 1923 by Russell Porter of MIT and Springfield, Vermont, the Porter Garden Telescope was conceived as both a superb optical instrument and a beautiful Art Nouveau botanical sculpture. An original resides in the Smithsonian Institution. George Manacek, whose work is the scholarly study of antique scientific instruments, claims that it is the most pure marriage of art and science he has ever witnessed, and that neither role is compromised by the other. It's beauty compelled Schleipman to convince a small museum in Vermont that he could improve on the telescope and reintroduce it to the world. After five years of engineering and the integration of many refinements, we have done so. Hence the little telescope which inspired the design of the 200 inch Hale telescope was reborn.