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Jan 1, 1284
First wearable eye-glasses
Salvino D'Amate invented the first wearable eye-glasses -
First compound microscope
Hans Jansen and his son Sacharias Jansen invented the compund microscope. -
Improved version of telescope
Galileo Galilei improved the telescope. -
Compound microscope made of 2 convex lenses
Cornelius Drebbel made the compound microscope with 2 convex lenses. -
Microscopes that magnify up to 200 times
Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented a microscope that can magnify up to 200 times. -
Binocular microscope developed out of 2 monocular systems
Cherubin d’Orleans invented a binocular microscope that was developed out of 2 monocular systems -
Constructed oculars made of two lenses and a diaphragm
Christiaan Huygens -
Microscope base with an illumination system
John Marshall invented the microscope base with an illumination system -
mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece
Christian Gottlieb Hertel invented mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece -
Double microscope
John Cuff invented the double microscope -
Microscopes with revolving nosepiece
Georg Adams invented microscopes with revolving nosepiece -
Electron microscope
Ernst Rusker invented the electron microscope.