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		| Paper: | 
		A Review of the History of VLBI | 
	 
	
		| Volume: | 
		300, Radio Astronomy at the Fringe | 
	 
	
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		1 | 
	 
	
		| Authors: | 
		Clark, B.G. | 
	 
	
	
		| Abstract: | 
		I briefly review the history of VLBI. I start with a review of the lines of evidence that lead to the belief that very long baseline interferometry was a desireable and necessary devlopment of instrumentation.  I then briefly mention the first efforts to construct VLBI instruments.  I finally look back over the past thirty years and call out several themes that have devleoped over the years. | 
	 
	
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