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The first version aid was invented but the inventor is unkown , but whoever this is they named it the reading stone.It was a glass sphere that magnified or zoomed when it was placed on top of anything that would be a reading sort of material.
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Salvino D'Armate is known for creating the first eye glasses for a microscope.
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No actual date stated or found ? but the first microscope was invneted by two dutch men called zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans Janssen , they were lens makers and they develped the first microscope.
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Robert Hooke discoveres the first cell.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a microscope with one lens to examine blood, yeast, insects and many other small objects. he was the first person to describe what bacteria was and what it looked like and he invented new ways for cleaning microscope lenses .
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In the 18th Century scientists began began combining two lenses , to remove the halo known as "chromatic effect".
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Joseph Jackson discovred that by putting several senses together it maginfied the topic without making it blurry.
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Ernst Abbe formulated a matthematical formaula for lenses and optipical systems which made images more focused.
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A ultramicroscope was developed by Richard Zsigmondy which could study objects below the wavelength of light. In 1925 he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this.
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1931 – Ernst Ruska co-invented the electron microscope for which he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986. An electron microscope uses electrons not light to view an object, the electrons are speeded up until their wavelength is extremely short. making it possible to see objects as small as an atom.
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The phase-contrast microscope was invented by Frits Zernike This allowed for the study of colourless biological materials. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for this invention.
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Three dimensional images were invented with the tunnelling microscope by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer in 1981.
This is the strongest microscope to date.
