James's timeline

first microscope

Oct 20, 1267

explains the principles of the lens and proposes the idea of telescope and microscope

first compound microscope

Oct 20, 1625

Galileo Galilei developed the first compound microscope(couldnt find ecxact date)

now see specimens

Oct 21, 1674

Anton van Leeuwenhoek improves on a simple microscope for viewing biological specimens.

first electronic microscope

Oct 20, 1931

Ernst Ruska starts making first electronic microscope

emission microscope

Oct 21, 1936

Erwin Wilhelm Müller invents the field emission microscope.

now see atoms

Oct 21, 2014

Erwin Wilhelm Müller invents the field ion microscope and is the first to see atoms.

now see metorites

Oct 21, 2014

Henry Clifton Sorby develops a metallurgical microscope to observe structure of meteorites.

compound microscope presented

Oct 21, 2014

Galileo presents his concave and convex coumpound microscope to king Sigismund III.

phase contrast

Oct 21, 2014

Frits Zernike, professor of theoretical physics, receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the phase contrast microscope.

scanning tunneling

Oct 21, 2014

Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer develop the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).