The History Of The Microscope

By Georgia Sheehan
  • Period: Jan 1, 1284 to

    History Of The Microscope

  • Jan 1, 1285

    Salvino D'Armate

    Salvino D'Armate
    D'Armate invented the first pair of wearable glasses.

  • Hans Jansen and Sacharias Jansen

    Hans Jansen and Sacharias Jansen
    Hans Jansen and his son, Sacharias Jansen, invented the first compound microscope.

  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    Developed a compound microscope with a convex and concave lens.

  • Cornelius Drebbel

    Drebbel developed a compound microscope made of two comvex lenses. He began manufacturing microscopes, in London, with compound devices.

  • Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
    Leeuwenhoek developed the single-lense microscope.

  • Cherubin d’Orleans

    Cherubin d’Orleans
    d'Orleans invented a binocular microscope out of two monocular systems.

  • Christiaan Huygens

    Huygens formulated the wave theory of light. He also constructed oculars made of two lenses and a diaphragm.

  • Christian Gottlieb Hertel

    Christian Gottlieb Hertel
    Hertel invented a microscope that used mirrors for illumination. He also developed a micrometer eyepiece using horse hair for a grid.

  • John Cuff

    Cuff invented a condenser lens to increase light intensity.

  • Georg Adams

    Georg Adams
    Georg Adams constructed microscope with a revolving nosepiece that allowed objectives to change.

  • Ernst Ruska

    Ernst Ruska
    Ruska created the first electron microscope. This microscope is used by most scientists today and instead of light uses a beam of electrons.