Biology
Simple microscope
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek built a simple microscope with one lens in 1674. He also invented a new way for grinding and polishing microscope lenses. The microscope can examine blood and insects. This helped us look at tiny particle or objects more clearly.
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Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscope
The Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope was invented in 1988. This microscope helped scientist be able to to observe things at atomic or molecular scales....
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Electron Microscope
An electron microscope depends on electrons rather then light to view an object. Electron microscopes make it possible to view objects as small as the diameter of an atom. The electron microscope was invented in 1931....
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Eye Glasses
Two dutch men created eye glasses with multiple lenses placed in a tube in 1590. The eye glasses made objects enlarged, creating the forerunner of the compound microscope and telescope. This helped us see objects appear very large then how we look at...
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Microscope
Term: microscopeOrigin: An Greek ??????/micros(=small) + ??????/scopos(=aim, look at) Coined : Jansen and Jansen (1590), first produced a crude type of microscope by placing two lenses together without any provision for focussing. The Italian physicist...
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Microbiology
Term: microbiology Origin: Anc Greek ??????/micros(=small) + ????/bios(=life) + ?????/logy(=study of ) Coined: by French chemist Louis Pasteur (1822 ?1895) from term ?microbe? introduced in 1878 by French surgeon Charles Emmanuel Sedillot (1804-1883)....
Biology