History of the Microscope

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

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

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