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    The History of Microscopes

    Prajeeshvaran IX - C

    The first ever microscope


    It isn’t clear who invented the first ever microscope but the dutch spectacle maker Zachariah
    Janssen is credited for making one of the earliest compound microscope

    The different types of microscopes:-

     Simple microscope

     Compound microscope

     Electron microscope

     Stereomicroscope

     Scanning probe microscope

    The discoveries attributed to the microscope


    The microscope tremendously helped in finding out how the cell worked, it further helped us in
    understanding deeper in how each cell organelle helps the cells

    “By the help of the microscope, there is nothing so small as to escape our inquiry; hence
    there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding”- Robert Hooke

    Simple microscope:

    A simple microscope is a magnifying glass that has a double convex lens with a short focal
    length. Examples of this kind of instrument include the hand lens and reading lens. When an
    object is kept near the lens, then its principal focus with an image is produced, which is erect
    and bigger than the original object.
    Complex microscopes: Typically, a compound microscope is used for viewing samples at high
    magnification (40 – 1000x), which is achieved by the combined effect of two sets of lenses: the
    ocular lens (in the eyepiece) and the objective lenses (close to the sample).

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    (structure of an compound microscope)

    The Compound microscope is considered to be one of the standard microscopes that can be
    used for general purposes. The arrangement of the lens is such that it magnifies the objects
    from the complex system

    Electron microscope:
    An electron microscope is a microscope that uses a beam of fast electrons as a
    source of light. As the wavelength of an electron can be up to 100,000 times
    shorter than that of visible light photons, electron microscopes have a higher
    resolving power than light microscopes and can show/tell about the structure of
    smaller objects. A scanning transmission electron microscope has
    (accomplished or gained with effort) better than 50 pm (ability to display or

    measure very small things) in ring-like dark-field imaging mode[1] and


    magnifications of up to about 10,000,000xwhereas most light microscopes are
    limited by diffraction to about 200 nm (ability to display or measure very small
    things) and useful magnifications below 2000x.

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    Stereomicroscope:
    sometimes called a dissecting microscope or a binocular inspection microscope,

    is a low-power compound instrument used for a closer examination of three-


    dimensional specimens than is possible with a hand lense

    Scanning probe microscope:


    Scanning probe microscopy is a branch of microscopy that forms images
    of surfaces using a physical probe that scans the specimen. SPM was

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    founded in 1981, with the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope,
    an instrument for imaging surfaces at the atomic level

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