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In the 2nd century BC, Claudius Ptolemy realized that objects in water tend to bend more than objects our of water. This is called refraction and it would be used later on in microscopes.

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In the 1st century, Romans found out that glass can has an enlarging property when the glass is bent in.

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Created: 710 BC
~used as a magnifying glass

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Created: 1000 AD
~used for reading

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Created: 1284
~used to see, first wearable eye glasses

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Created: 1590
~used to view objects which will enlarge greatly

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Created: 1609
~has a convex and a concave mirror

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Happened in 1676
~Antonie van Leeuwenhoek made a simple microscope with one lens to blood, yeast and insects.

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Created: 1931
~Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll build the first ever transmission electron microscope

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Created: 1932
~invented by Frits Zernike

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Created: 1942
~build by Ernst Ruska

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Created: 1978
~build by Thomas and Christoph Cremer to scan an object using laser beam

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Created: 1981
~invented by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer