History of the Microscope

1. History of the Microscope

2. History of Microscope • 1000 A.D. – First visual aid was created that was a sphere that magnified by being set on objects. • 1590 A.D. – Two Dutch eye glass makers tested using multiple lenses in a tube making the first compound microscope. • 1665 – Robert Hooke looked at things through magnification lens and saw the smaller parts of cells. • 1674 – Auton van Leevwenhoek built a simple microscope with improved curvature and got 270x zoom on a microscope.

3. History of Microscope • 18th century – Technical innovations improved the microscope and microscopy got more popular. • 1830 – Joseph Lister gave prototype to the first compound microscope • 1872 – maximum resolution for microscopes achieved by setting lens apart mathematically. • 1903 – Richard Zsigmondy developed ultra microscope that used wavelengths instead of light.

4. History of Microscope • 1931 – Ernst Ruska Co-Invented the electron microscope that used electrons instead of light. • 1981 – Gerard Binning and Heinrich Rohrer invented a scanning tunneling microscope that give 3-dimensional images of objects to an atomic level.