Abstract
I offer a brief and personal history of the development of polarization sensitive observations with widely separated antennas. The story starts at Jodrell Bank in the late 1960s with a 24 km baseline radio linked (but not phase stable) interferometer and reaches to the present Event Horizon Telescope (with global span and independent atomic clocks) which has just published an image of the linearly polarized radiation surrounding the black hole shadow of M87*. I was privileged to be witness to many of the developments along the way, either as an instigator, a bystander, or an unindicted co-conspirator. I am most interested in the technical developments that enabled these increasingly sophisticated observations, and in the ideas that advanced the data analysis and imaging.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
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