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Early humans used this as a microscope. It is called a nimrud lens. It is made out of rock and crystal. This was oftenly used to magnify the sun and start fires but it was also used as a magnifying glass.

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This microscope was mostly used as a vision aid to help people read, write, etc. They called this a reading stone. It was usually a glass sphere or can looking shape like the one in the photo.

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In 1284 the first eyeglasses were made. They used wood on the outside and the same glass as the reading stone as the lenses. Many people uses these to read or just to see things better and closer in.

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The 1590 microscope is where they start to look more like microscopes. A father and son put many magnifiers in a tube and when they look through it it is very greatly zoomed. This was also a big step in making the telescope.

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In 1625 microscopes looked somewhat like this. Only royal and wealthy people or scientists had these as they were not cheap at the time. In 1625 microscopes got their name and people all over the world started calling the microscopes.

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In 1942 the first scanning electron microscope was born. It was made by Ernst Rubeska. It transmits a beam of electrons across the object to get a better look at it.

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In 2010 some UCLA students used a microscope on a virus and could see its atoms. This was a huge step in microscope history as this is what microscopes are being used for today.