Talk:Timeline of microscope technology

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hi I changed the date of the first electron microscope from 1932 to 1931, because Ruska himself says that's when he built it - see. --Camembert

It would have been interesting to get some quantitative measure of the development of microscopy, e.g. what kind of magnification factor one was able to get through various improvements over time. Does that make sense? (I've just started learning about the subject, so I'm probably wrong.) Mortene 11:44, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)

microscopes
1848-they are the bomb yo! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.229.235.94 (talk) 15:11, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

SEM
What about the invention of Scanning Electron Microscope? I think it should be mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.46.220.176 (talk) 19:19, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Where's Royal Raymond Rife
There's no way Rife can be omitted from an article about history of microscopy. Smithsonian published his work. He was able to view viruses before the time of electron microscopy with his Universal Microscope. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.77.222.167 (talk) 15:18, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Compound microscope?
What makes a microscope "compound"? Is it just multi-element optics, as opposed to a magnifying glass? —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 18:30, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Chinese water microscope unfounded
Current article says 167 BCE water microscopes were used in China citing Ref 2. However, in Ref 2 to David Bardell's article on the invention of the microscope, there's no mention of China.
 * It comes up in sources, a Chow-Foo dynasty microscope water lens, but its a "possible", not a fact, and the current description is off by 2000 years. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 14:58, 18 November 2020 (UTC)