Microscope Timeline By facebooker_10159136361406753 1590 Hans Janssen and son made the first compound microscope 1660 Robert Hooke added an oil lamp to improve the microscope 1683 Anton Leeuwenhoek created a simple microscope that could magnify an object 266 times. He was the first to see many one celled organisms. 1886 Modern Compound Light Microscope The modern compound light microscope was created 1981 Scanning Tunneling Microscope The STM was created. Used for imaging surfaces at the atomic level.
