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Jun 19, 1284
First Wearable Eye-Glasses
Salvino D'Amate invented the first wearable eye-glasses -
Improved version of telescope
Galileo Galilei improved the telescope. -
Compound microscope made of 2 convex lenses
Cornelius Drebbel made the compound microscope with 2 convex lenses. -
Robert Hooke Invents the Microscope
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
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
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
Christiaan Huygens. -
Microscope base with an illumination system
John Marshall invented the microscope base with an illumination system. -
Mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece
Christian Gottlieb Hertel invented mirrors for illumination and constructed a micrometer eyepiece. -
Double microscope
John Cuff invented the double microscope. -
Microscopes with revolving nosepiece
Georg Adams invented microscopes with revolving nosepiece -
Electron microscope
Ernst Rusker invented the electron microscope.
