who invented the first telescope

The first telescope is generally credited to Hans Lippershey, a Dutch spectacle maker, who filed the earliest known patent application for a telescope in 1608. Although there were claims from others, Lippershey's design, featuring a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece, is recognized as the earliest tangible physical telescope. Galileo Galilei later improved on this design and was the first to use the telescope for astronomical observations, but he did not invent it.