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The Microscope

The microscope allows users to magnify small objects like cells. It works by using at least one lens to bend light toward the eye, making objects appear larger. The first microscope was created in 1590 by two Dutch spectacle-makers and was originally used to study insects. There are many types of microscopes that can be used depending on the application. Basic microscopes can even be made at home using cardboard tubes and lenses.

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The Microscope

The microscope allows users to magnify small objects like cells. It works by using at least one lens to bend light toward the eye, making objects appear larger. The first microscope was created in 1590 by two Dutch spectacle-makers and was originally used to study insects. There are many types of microscopes that can be used depending on the application. Basic microscopes can even be made at home using cardboard tubes and lenses.

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The

microscope
BY: SZILARD POLONYI
Why do we use microscopes.
To magnify small objects ,even cells.
How does it work?
The image of an object is magnified through at least one lens in the microscope. This lens bends light
toward the eye and makes an object appear larger than it actually is.
Inventer
Two Dutch spectacle-makers and father-and-son team, Hans and Zacharias Janssen, create the first
microscope.
When was the first microscope
made?

In 1590.
Parts
Types of microscopes
There are many types of microscopes because of when you need which.
Can I make a microscope at
home?
To build your microscope, place the lens identified as the eyepiece (ocular) lens on the end of the
cardboard tube having the smallest diameter. 2. Take the other lens, the one identified as the objective
lens, and place it on the end of the cardboard tube having the largest diameter.
Funfacts
1667: Robert Hooke's famous "Micrographia" is published, which outlines Hooke's various studies using the microscope.
• They are most commonly used to study minute objects and have been used in various forms for more than 3,000 years.
• The first ever microscope was originally used to study insect. This is also the reason why it got the name ‘Flea Glass’.
• Any microscope gets its magnifying power by multiplying the power of the respective objective lenses.
• An object can be magnified millions of times when it is being viewed through an electron microscope.
• A single lens microscope was invented in the 1660s by Antony van Leeuwenhoek. It could magnify an object up to 200 times.
• The resolution of any microscope can be defined as the ability to see items clearly and separately under the lens.
• When an object is photographed while under the microscope, it is known as a micrograph.
• The smallest sample ever seen using a light microscope was an object 500 nanometer long.
SOURCES
Wikipedia

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