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10 Fun Facts About the History of the…
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10 Fun Facts About the History of the Microscope
- The earliest microscopes were known as “flea glasses” because they were used to study small insects.
- A father-son duo, Zacharias and Han Jansen, created the first compound microscope in the 1590s.
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek created powerful lenses that could see teeming bacteria in a drop of water.
- Robert Hooke discovered cells by studying the honeycomb structure of a cork under a microscope.
- Marcello Marpighi, known as the father of microscopic anatomy, found taste buds and red blood cells.
- Robert Koch used a compound microscope to discover tubercle and cholera bacilli.
- German engineer Carl Zeiss revolutionized the quality of lenses in the 19th century.
- The smallest object observed through a light microscope was 500 nanometers long.
- In 2008 the TEAM 0.5 debuted. It is the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope and is capable of producing images half a ten-billionth of a meter.
- Researchers used microscopes in 2013 to demonstrate how life could have started.
SOURCE: Microscope World
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