The History of the Microscope and Cells

First Wearable Eye-Glasses

Jun 19, 1284

Salvino D'Amate invented the first wearable eye-glasses

Improved version of telescope

Jan 12, 1609

Galileo Galilei improved the telescope.

Compound microscope made of 2 convex lenses

Mar 30, 1619

Cornelius Drebbel made the compound microscope with 2 convex lenses.

Robert Hooke Invents the Microscope

May 3, 1665

In 1667, Robert Hooke first invented the Microscope. He invented this to look at cells in cork and bark.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovers hand-held, single-lens microscopes

Aug 13, 1673

In 1673, the Dutch amateur scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek made amazing discoveries with simple, hand-held, single-lens microscopes. Whereas other microscopes of the time could only magnify objects so that they appeared 50 times bigger however his microscope was able to magnify objects up to 300 times.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek becomes First Person ever to see Single-Celled Organisms called Protsits

Nov 21, 1674

One year later, Anton van Leeuwenhoek used his microscope to become the first person to ever see single-celled organisms called protists.

Constructed oculars made of two lenses and a diaphragm

Oct 26, 1690

Christiaan Huygens.

Microscope base with an illumination system

Jul 27, 1700

John Marshall invented the microscope base with an illumination system.

Mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece

Jun 19, 1712

Christian Gottlieb Hertel invented mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece.

Double microscope

Jun 19, 1744

John Cuff invented the double microscope.

Microscopes with revolving nosepiece

Jun 19, 1755

Georg Adams invented microscopes with revolving nosepiece

Electron microscope

Dec 24, 1931

Ernst Rusker invented the electron microscope.