Microscopes

By cynthiag

  • First Microscope

    The first microscope was invented by Hans and Zacharias Janssen by placing two lenses in a tube.

  • Simple Microscope describes blood, insects and many other objects

    Anton van Leeuwenhoek uses a simple microscope to describe blood and insects and was also the first to describe cells and bacteria.

  • Better

    Microscopes became better and easier to handle, and more and more popular in scientists to use.

  • Good Magnification

    Joseph Jackson Lister discovers that several weak lenses used together at certain distances gave good magnification without blurring the image.

  • Develops Ultramicroscope

    Richard Zsigmondy develops the ultramicroscope and is able to study objects below the wavelength of light.

  • Phase-contrast microscope

    Frits Zernike invents the phase-contrast microscope that allows the study of colorless and transparent materials.

  • Electron Microscope

    Ernst Ruska develops the electron microscope.

  • Scanning tunnel microscope

    Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer invent the scanning tunneling microscope that gives three-dimensional images of objects down to the atomic level.