Timeline of microscope technology - Definition and Overview

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.
1609 - Galileo Galilei develops an occhiolino or compound microscope with a convex and a concave lens.
1612 - Galileo presents occhiolino to Polish king Sigismund III.
1619 - Cornelius Drebbel (1572 - 1633) presents, in London, a compound microscope with two convex lenses.
c.1622 - Drebbel presents his invention in Rome.
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.
1674 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek improves on a simple microscope for viewing biological specimens.
1931 - Ernst Ruska builds the first electron microscope.
1953 - Frits Zernike, professor of theoretical physics, Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the phase contrast optical microscope.
1981 - Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer develop the scanning tunneling microscope.

Example Usage of microscope
	candilockz: @redz_dread and urs tatas need a microscope
	jeffingle: Using laptops and microscope cams to create a video about cells and tissues in plants and animals. Hope the students get the point.
	JamelTWilkins: They always gotta ask "what you wearing?" on the Red Carpet! Damn! Put your microscope away! (got that from @TherealTaraji).

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Example Usage of microscope