Microscopes

My father and mother have been very supportive of whatever I want to become in life. Hence, when I was eight years of age, they persuaded me to become a scientist when I asked for a microscope.It was that Christmas that I received a microscope and spent hours in tiny, fascinating worlds accompanied by visions of winning a Nobel Peace Prize for a scientific discovery of some new form of life, cure for a disease or something that would benefit all of humanity.

My microscope became my eyes to another world, everything that I grabbed, I placed under its tiny scope. The snowfall during that time was unlike the usual. It made such exquisite snowflakes in all its variety. I adored it. Each snowflake was a beauty in its own intricate artwork, like a marvelous present handed from above.

The development of microscope, as light goes through its pattern of lenses, enabled us to see even the tiniest speck which can\’t be done by merely looking at it. There were early magnifiers, burning glasses and magnifying glasses as scribed by Seneca, Pliny the Elder, and Roman philosophers during the first century A.D. Lenses was how they were called because of the magnifying glasses\’ seed-like shape was similar to that of a lentil.

The earliest microscope was just a tube with a plate for the object at one end and a magnification lens that enlarged objects ten times its size on the other. They used to call it flea glasses as well because of their curiosity on examining fleas and other insects with it.

In 1590, Zaccharias Janssen and his son Hans discovered that objects can seem bigger as a result of their testing on various lenses in a tube.The instrument improved over the years as different inventors added their knowledge and expertise. A scientist named Galileo imparted his knowledge by introducing a lens with a device that directly focuses on the specimen in 1609.But, it is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek of Holland that is considered the father of microscopy. He used a magnifying glass to conduct thread counts on fabric when he took a job as a novice in the dry goods store. Later, he learned to grind and polish tiny lenses with excellent curves that can magnify up to 270 diameters. Ultimately, he was known as the father of microbiology with the use of the microscope that he developed. He is the first to record microscopic observations of bacteria, yeast plants, organisms in water and blood flow in capillaries.What a moment that must have been. In the following years that came, there were insignificant improvements. However, by the 19th century, an American scientist by the name of Charles A. Spencer was able to manufacture the best lenses that can amplify the object\’s appearance of up to 1250 diameters if used with natural light and 5000 diameters if used with blue light.

There are all sizes and shapes of microscopes – one to suit and encourage your little one to explore different worlds, and those for industrial, scientific and medical use. Despite how it measures, it can still spark your interest, that\’s for sure.

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