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The reading stone is a glass sphere that laid on top of words and magnified them. The inventor is unknown.
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The first eyeglasses were made by an Italian named Salvino D'Armate. They were used to aid vision.
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Two Dutch eyeglass makers, put multiple lenses in a tube. The thing they were looking at was very enlarged, which led to the invention of the compound microscope and the telescope.
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Robert Hooke was looking at a sliver of cork and saw noticed little caplsules in there. He called them cells.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a simple microscope to look at yeast, blood, insects, and other small things. He was the first to describe bactieria and showed new ways to make lenses.
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Joeseph Jackson showed that many weak lenses at certain distances, makes the image clearer. This was the prototype of the microscope.
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Richard Zsigmondy invented this microscope that could study objects beyond the wavelenght of light. He won a Nobel Prize in 1925.
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Erenst Ruska co-invented this microscope and got a Nobel prize in 1986. This microscope uses electrons to see items insteadof light. They can view things as small as the diamiter of an atom, but kills living things.
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Frits Zernike invented this microscope. This allowed the study of colorless and tranparent biological matirials. He got a Nobel prize in 1953.
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Made by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer. It shows 3D objects down to the atomic level. These men got Nobel prizes in 1986. It is the strongest microscope today.
