1285
glasses invented
1590
Hans and zacharias janssen make 9x magnifier
1609
galileo perfects microscope
1625
giovanni faber coins the word “microscope”
1665
robert hooke discover cells
1670
antony van leeuwenhoek perfects microscope
1800
modern microscope born
1926
richard zsigmondy wins nobel prize for ultra microscope
1931
max knoll and ernst ruska invent electron microscope
1953
frits zernike wins nobel for phase contrast method
1986
tunneling microscope