About the best that can be said is that if he did, no one took note of it other than his son. It's much more likely that his son was doing a little bit of "My dad is bigger than your dad" type bragging.
it is a reflector telescope
A Cassegrain reflector
Better u ask who found that telescope
An optical telescope (as distinct from, say, a radio telescope). It's possible that the answer was intended to be "a refracting telescope" but reflecting telescopes use lenses as well.
Leonard Nimoy passed in February 2015.
telescope
Galileo did not invent the telescope, but he made significant improvements to its design and was one of the first to use it for astronomical observations in the early 17th century. The telescope was actually invented in the Netherlands by Hans Lippershey around 1608.
Leonard Digges
Leonard Digges
The Englishman, Leonard Digges (1520-1559), from Bartham in Kent, UK, invented the Theodolite in 1551...The main component of a Theodolite is a small but powerful refracting telescope, so he was almost certainly the very first person in the world to invent the refracting telescope. However, it is known that he also invented the reflecting telescope shortly afterwards. In 1608, Hans Lippershey, a German born Dutch citizen invented a refracting telescope in Middelburg, Netherlands. Galileo's model a year later was a considerable improvement upon Lippersheys design but it came almost 60 years after Digges's invented his telescope. The Gregorian reflecting telescope was invented by Scottish mathematician and astronomer James Gregory and his design was first published in 1663. Isaac Newton invented the Newtonian reflecting telescope in 1668, 117 years after Digges invented his. The design of the Cassegrain telescope was first published on April 25th 1672 and its invention is attributed to Laurent Cassegrain (1629-1693), a Catholic priest from Chartres, France. There were no real major advances in telescope designs until the Schmidt telescope was invented, by German optician Bernhard Schmidt, in 1930. The Maksutov telescope was patented in 1941 by Russian optician Dmitri Maksutov.
Refracting telescope
telescope
Aristotle did not invent the telescope; he lived roughly 2000 years before the telescope was invented.
Galileo helped to invent the telescope.
Isaac Newton did not invent the telescope. The telescope was actually invented by Hans Lippershey in 1608. Newton's contributions to science were in the fields of physics, mathematics, and astronomy, particularly with his laws of motion and the development of calculus.
His dad inspired him to make a telescope.
He invented the reflecting telescope. Galileo was the first to use the telescope for studies of the heavens.