Microscopes

Microscopes help us in many ways. This is how it helped scientists. Microscopes are important to scientists because they can see beyond the human eye. They help us find out how things work, for example how plants breathe(Exploring with microscopes). It helps us look at things more closely (Exploring with microscopes). The microscope was invented in the early 1600’s. Not invented from one person by many different people(Meeting microorganisms). The first time they saw it it changed the way they looked at the world. (Exploring with microscopes). Robert Hooke was the first person to look at cells in 1665(Meeting microorganisms). Since the first microscope was invented we found out a lot more about the human body (Meeting microorganisms). They helped create a new law in biology (Meeting microorganisms).

There are many different types of microscopes. There are 5 different types of Microscopes(Types of Microscopes). Stereo Microscope creates a 3d image(Types of Microscopes). I mainly give both transmitted and reflected illumination(Types of Microscopes). With this microscope you can see things that will not allow light to pass through it(Types of Microscopes). It is mainly used in manufacturing, quality control, coin collecting, science, for high school dissection projects, and botany(Types of Microscopes).Compound Microscope are used in laboratories, schools, wastewater treatment plants, veterinary offices, and for histology and (Types of Microscopes). It can go up to 40x, 100x, 400x, and 1000x(Types of Microscopes). Inverted microscopes can go up to 40x, 100x,200x, and 400x(Types of Microscopes). This microscope is used to see living things(Types of Microscopes). Metallurgical microscopes are high power(Types of Microscopes). It allows you to see things that don’t let light pass through(Types of Microscopes). You can use 50x, 100x, 200x, and 500x. It’s mostly used to see micron level cracks(Types of Microscopes). Polarizing Microscopes will only let certain light waves go through(Types of Microscopes). It will use polarizing light with other things. This is the history of microscopes. During the 14th century there were just spectacles (History of microscopes).The first microscope was created in 1590’s by 2 Dutch people(History of microscopes). The ultramicroscope was invented by Richard Zsigmondy in 1903(History of microscopes). In 1932 Frits Xernike’s invention of the phase-contrast microscope was for the first time used to study transparent biological materials(History of microscopes). 6 years later in 1938 the electron microscope was created by Ernst Ruska(History of microscopes). 3-D specimen images were found because the scanning tunneling microscope was created by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer(History of microscopes).

This is the development of the microscope. We don’t know who actually invented the microscope (The Microscope). Zacharias, who is the Dutch spectacle maker, who people say created the compound microscope around the 1600 (The Microscope). This microscope however could only go up to 20x to 30x (The Microscope). Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made his own hand ground lenses (The Microscope). He studied plants and humans and many other things that we never saw before (The Microscope). Even with what we were finding back then scientists could not trust the microscopes (The Microscope). In the 1830s cell theory was the focus (The Microscope). With being able to see at a microscopic level more consistently we became more trusting in microscopes (The Microscope). Mathias Scheleiden and Theodor Schwann claimed that cells were the base for plant and animal life (The Microscope). Rudolf Vichow took up that theory (The Microscope). Most of his work involved tissue and cells (The Microscope). He used the latest development of microscopes (The Microscope).

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Exploring with microscopes – introduction. Science Learning Hub. March 9, 2023, https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/489-exploring-with-microscopes-introduction

Types of Microscopes. Microscope World Blog.March 9, 2023, https://www.microscopeworld.com/p-3658-types-of-microscopes.aspx

The Microscope. Science Museum. March 9, 2023, https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/microscope

History of microscopes. Microscope.com. March 9, 2023, https://www.microscope.com/education-center/microscopes-101/history-of-microscopes