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Feb 1, 1500
Flea Glasses
after the development of eye glasses, Flea glasses were invented and allowed for examination of small creautures such as the flea. -
Compound microscope
Dutch spectacle makers Zaccaria and Hans Janssen lined up two lenses in a tube to creat the first true compound microscope. -
Single lens microscope
Anton van Leeuwenhoek was the first to put the microscope to use, His invention used an extreme curvature of one simple lens to magnify specimans up to 279 times. -
The Electron Microscope
a microscope with high magnification and resolution, employing electron beams in place of light and using electron lenses. -
The microscope today
In todays scientific world, the light microscope is still often used in the life sciences where living biology is obverserved, New histology advancements, stains, video, and dyes, used to enhance the visibilty of specimans
