He used the magnifying glass to count threads in woven cloth. He became so interested that he learned how to make lenses. By grinding and polishing, he was able to make small lenses with great curvatures.
These rounder lenses produced greater magnification, and his microscopes were able to magnify up to X! Anthony Leeuwenhoek became more involved in science and with his new improved microscope was able to see things that no man had ever seen before. He saw bacteria, yeast, blood cells and many tiny animals swimming about in a drop of water.
From his great contributions, many discoveries and research papers, Anthony Leeuwenhoek has since been called the "Father of Microscopy". Companies in Germany like Zeiss and an American company founded by Charles Spencer began producing fine optical instruments. Today, there are no microscope manufacturers in the US and most of the microscopes come from Germany, Japan and China. Toy plastic microscopes should be avoided as they do not achieved the level of quality of the basic instruments with metal frames and glass lenses.
Because of foreign production, quality microscopes have become affordable for all. By placing different types and sizes of lenses in opposite ends of tubes, they discovered that small objects were enlarged.
The glass lenses that he created could enlarge an object many times. The quality of his lenses allowed him, for the first in history, to see the many microscopic animals, bacteria and intricate detail of common objects. Leeuwenhoek is considered the founder of the study of microscopy and an played a vital role in the development of cell theory.
The microscope was in use for over years before the next major improvement was developed. Using early microscopes was difficult. Light refracted when passing through the lenses and altered what the image looked like. When the achromatic lens was developed for use in eyeglasses by Chester Moore Hall in , the quality of microscopes improved. Using these special lenses, many people would continue to improve the visual acuity of the microscope.
During the 18th and 19th centuries, many changes occurred in both the housing design and the quality of microscopes. Microscopes became more stable and smaller. Lens improvements solved many of the optical problems that were common in earlier versions.
The history of the microscope widens and expands from this point with people from around the world working on similar upgrades and lens technology at the same time. August Kohler is credited with inventing a way to provide uniform microscope illumination that allowed specimens to be photographed.
Ernst Leitz devised a way to allow for different magnifications using one microscope by putting multiple lenses on a movable turret at the end of the lens tube. Looking for a way to allow more light-spectrum colors to be visible, Ernst Abbe designed a microscope that in a few years would provide Zeiss with the tools to develop the ultraviolet microscope.
The invention of the microscope allowed scientists and scholars to study the microscopic creatures in the world around them. By: Matthew Wills. March 27, March 23, Share Tweet Email Print.
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