Microscope Timeline
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Updated: 13 Dec 2017
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Created byRiley Mason
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Lenses developedThe first microscope was inventedRobert Hooke looked at a silver of cork
through a microscope and he was able to
see cell type imagesAnton van Leeuwenhoek built a simple
microscope with one lens and he
examined blood, yeast and insects.
this was the first time someone had described bacteria.Technical improvements were
made to the average microscopeJoseph Jackson Lister discovered that
if you use weak lenses and spread them
apart and make them at different
distances makes a good magnification.Richard Zsigmondy developed the ultramicroscope which is able to
see objects below the wavelength
of lightThe electron microscope was invented.
It uses electrons instead of light to see
the objectFrits Zernike invented the phase
contrast microscope. This allowed
the user to see colourless
and transparent objectsThe scunning tunneling microscope was invented. This microscope gave 3
dimensional images of objects the chance to be able to go down to an atomic level.
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