The Microscope: Improvements over time

By ej123

  • the first compound microscope

    the first compound microscope
    Zacharias and Hans Janssen made one of the first compound microscope

  • 1660 Hooke's compoun d microscope

    1660 Hooke's compoun d microscope
    robert hooke's compound focused a light from the flame onto the specimen.

  • Leeuwenhoek's simple microscope

    Leeuwenhoek's simple microscope
    although his microscope lens was small it could magnify 266 times

  • Modern Compound Microscope

    Modern Compound Microscope
    this modern microscope can magnify up to 1,000 times

  • Transmission Electronic Microscope (TEM)

    Transmission Electronic Microscope (TEM)
    German scientist Ernest Ruska created the the first electron microscope that magnify up to 500,000 times

  • Scanning Electron Microscope

    Scanning Electron Microscope
    The SEM can magnify up to 150,000 times

  • Scanning Tunneling Microscope

    Scanning Tunneling Microscope
    Track leaks or tunneling of the surface of the specimen.Can magnify 1,000,000 times