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Telescope is Invented
In 1608 the telescope is said to be invented by Jacob Adriaanzoon (James Metius). His original telescope made distant objects appear much larger and closer. -
Galileo Create His Own Telescope
In 1609 after hearing of the telescope he decidese to make one of his own, in order to view distant stars and planets. -
Robert Hooke publishes his pamphlet "Microgphia"
In this pamplet was the first time someone used the word cell when referring to the cell in living creatures, while he was using a microscope at 30X to look at a piece of cork. -
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek discoevers many organisms using a microscope with 300x magnification created by him curving the lenses a new way. Also, Leeuwnehoek was only a tradesman at the time and discovered many cells, including bacteria, sperm cells, blood cells, and many others. -
New Microscope lenses created
Newest lenses go up to 1 microton of vision. -
Cell theory propsed
In 1839 the cell theory is formaly proposed by Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden. Also in this year, cells are recognized as basic units of life!!! -
Ernst Abbe
Abbe creates a calculations for the magnification of the lenses for each microscope to get away from the trial and error from before him. -
Ernst Leitz creates a five mount revolving microscope
This microscope was used to see five different materials quicker without needing five different microscopes. -
Oil Immersion lenses
In this year the oil immersion lenses were created, using cedar oil. Using these lenses resulted in homogenuos optical path. -
Mitosis Discovered
Scientist Walther Fleming discovers cell mitosis, which is a major part in cell division. -
Microtomes
MIcrotomes begin to appear for preperation, rather than using a knife. -
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Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch
Both of these men, both start to take an interest in the microscope and biology in general. -
First UV (ultraviolet) microscope
First UV (ultraviolet) microscope is invented by Zeiss using Abbes studies on the microscope. -
Fritz Zernike discovers stained cells not necesarry
In 1930 Zemike discovers stained cells are not needed for viewing a cell by using the angle phase rays. -
Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska create the first electron microscope.
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Ruska creates another
Ruska creates the first electron microscope to surpass the resolution of the original light microscope. -
First scanning electron microscope is bult
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First commercially available electron microscope.
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First commercial microscope
The first commercial microscope, is brought to the market ready to be bought. -
Porter and Blume
Porter and Blume create the first ultra-microtome. -
First diamond knife is created.
This is used to cut the material being observed super thin. -
Scanning probe microscope
This microscope is invented and is used by measuring current. -
Scanning laser confocal is commercialy availible
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Atomic force microscope
This microscope uses force rather than current to get its information. -
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Still improving
The microscope is still imoroving, and will never stop improving. As long as the world continues the microscope will still improve to gather even more information on life.
