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The Evolution of the Microscope
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The Evolution of the Microscope
The First Microscopes
14th Century
Spectacles were first made in the 14th Century. No one knows who invented them.
1590
Hans and Zacharias Janssen create the first microscope.
1675
Joseph Jackson Lister finds that combining two different types of glass at different distances reduces chromatic aberration.
The bottom picture is an example of chromatic aberration
Modern Microscopes
1981
The scanning tunneling microscope was invented by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer. It allows a 3D view of specimen.
21st Century
Dino-Lite Digital microscopes are not much bigger than a pen and can magnify up to 500 times.
http://www.teachertube.com/video/dino-lite-ms62r-review-ms-w0-wheel-rack-293535
Microscopes Become More Modern
1938
The electron microscope is invented by Ernst Ruska 6 years after the phase-contrast microscope.
1932
Frits Xernike invents the phase-contrast microscope and studies transparent biological materials with it.
1903
Richard Zsigmondy invents the ultra microscope for observation of creatures under the wavelength of light.