Microscope Timeline

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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.