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Timeline of Microscopes and The Cell Theory

By erogersskills21

  • Micrographia

    Micrographia
    Robert Hooke published "Microgphia". It had illustrations of objects drawn with the help of his microscope. First to use the tern "Cell" when describing a cork.

  • Important Discoveries in Biology

    Important Discoveries in Biology
    Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria, free-living and parasitic miscroscopic protists, sperm cells, blood cells and more with his microscope that could magnify up too 300X.

  • Achromatic Lenses

    Achromatic Lenses
    Achromatic lenses can provide resolution of 1 micron.

  • The Cell Theory Was Started

    The Cell Theory Was Started
    Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden formally proposed the "Cell Theory".

  • Micrographs

    Micrographs
    Donne published the first micrographs in France.

  • Theory of the Microscope

    Theory of the Microscope
    Ernst Abbe published his work on the theory of microscope. His formula to caculate resolution is based on his wave light theory.

  • Revolving Turret

    Revolving Turret
    Ernst Leitz introduced a revolving turret for 5 objectives.

  • Oil Immersion Lenses

    Oil Immersion Lenses
    Oil immersion lenses were introduced that allowed for homogeneous optical path.

  • Mitosis

    Mitosis
    Walher Flemming discovered mitosis.

  • Microscope Lamp

    Microscope Lamp
    August Kohler had worked out light source and condenser position to obtain the best image projection.

  • Apochromatic Objective

    Apochromatic Objective
    Ernst Abbe designed aprochromatic abjective that brings red, yellow, and blue into one focus. Requires 10 or more elements.

  • First Commercial UV Microscope

    First Commercial UV Microscope
    The first commercial

  • First Electron Microscope

    First Electron Microscope
    Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska contrust the first electron microscope.

  • First Electron Micrograph

    First Electron Micrograph
    First electron micrograpf of biological sample.

  • First Scanning Electron Microscope

    First Scanning Electron Microscope

  • First Commercial Electron Microscope

    First Commercial Electron Microscope
    The Electron microscopeis now available to the public.

  • First Ultra-Microtome

    First Ultra-Microtome
    Built by Porter and Blum

  • Lasers!

    Lasers!
    Made commercially available.

  • First Scanning Probe Microscope

    First Scanning Probe Microscope

  • Scanning Laser Confocal Microscope

    Scanning Laser Confocal Microscope
    Scanning laser confocal microscope is commercialy available.

  • First Atomic Force Microscope

    First Atomic Force Microscope