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Discovery of the magnifying glass by the Romans.

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Zacharias Jansen put several lenses in a tube to create a very early take on the microscope.

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Galileo discovered the use of lenses and how to focus with a lens.

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The first ever light microscope was created by Robert Hooke. It had 2 converging lenses.

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Anton van Leeweonok made the first practical microscope, with a millimeter sized lens that could magnify 700 tons.

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Max Knoll and Ernst Ruska created the electric microscope. This microscope uses a electron beam instead of light.

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Nowadays we have very modern microscopes that can magnify 1 million times or more, which is a huge advancement from back then.