Timeline of microscopetechnology Alternative meanings: Timeline is a 1999 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton Timeline is a 2003 film based on the novel. ... 1852 microscope Compound microscope made by John Cuff in 1750 A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too big to be seen by the naked or unaided eye. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
1624 - Galileo presents his occhiolino to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei (in English, The Linceans).
1625 - Giovanni Faber of Bamberg (1574 - 1629) of the Linceans coins the word microscope by analogy with telescope.
1665 - Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia, a collection of biological micrographs. He coins the word cell for the structures he discovers in cork bark.
1967 - Erwin Müller adds time-of-flight spectroscopy to the field ion microscope, making the first atom probe and allowing the chemical identification of each individual atom.
1988 - Alfred Cerezo, Terence Godfrey, and George Smith applied a position-sensitive detector to the atom probe, making it able to resolve atoms in 3-dimensions.
Alternative meanings: Timeline is also the title of a 1999 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton and also the title of a 2003 film Timeline, based on the novel.
Timeline of quantum mechanics, molecular physics, atomic physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics
Timeline of states of matter and phase transitions
1590 - Dutch spectacle-makers, Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias Janssen[?], claimed by later writers (Pierre Borel 1620 - 1671 or 1628 - 1689 and Willem Boreel 1591 - 1668) to have invented a compound microscope[?], but this is disputed.
1609 - Galileo Galilei develops an occhiolino or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
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