History of the microscope

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  • First Microscope

    Hans Janseen and his son made one of the 1st microscopes.

  • Improvements

    Robert Hooke improved the microscope by adding an oil lamp.

  • First Complex microscope

    Anton Leeuwenhoek created a simple microscope that could magnify an object 266 times. He was the first to see many single celled organisms.

  • Modern microscope

    The modern light compound microscope was invented.

  • STM

    The STM (scanning tunneling microscope), was invented. It could magnify an object 1,000,000.

  • BREAKTHROUGH

    China develops 3-photon microscope, which is capable of stable imagery of the brain cortex of a mice.