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Microscopes are very important instruments that are used mainly in the fields of Science. The invention of the microscope allowed for the discovery of microorganisms, cells, elements of animals, fungi and plants that could not be seen by the naked eye. Microscopes have been used in forensics to solve crimes, to detect minerals, to determine how freezing/heating affects foods and to specify metals. Microscopes are also used in hospitals to diagnose infections and illnesses, and also to help cure diseases.
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In order to see through microscopes, light has to travel to your eye from its origin. There are initially four stages of how the light travels to your eye. Firstly the light that is generated by the light bulb in the microscope is reflected off of a mirror. This lightens the sample you are studying. The light that is reflected off of the mirror then passes up into the shaft of the objective lens (located at the bottom of the tube). As does a magnifying glass, the bright lens magnifies the light and focuses the specimen on the stage. The item that is being observed can be focused by rotating the focus knob. After the light bounces off of the subject of study on the stage, the light passes through the eyepiece lens so that it is clearly visible to see.
Most microscopes consist of twelve parts; the eyepiece lens, the tube, the arm, the base, the illuminator, the mirror, the stage, the turret, the objective lenses, the rack stop, the condenser lens and the iris. Every part of a microscope has a very important responsibility in order for people to see smaller things clearly. For example the eyepiece lens is what you look through to observe. An illuminator is a one hundred and ten volt light source that i...
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...d scientist’s knowledge about microscopes, and possibly how to improve on them. In 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek invented a new microscope using his understanding of grinding lenses and how by doing so you can attain better intensification. Joseph Lister created a colourless convex lens that destroyed the way light changed colour when passing through a lens in 1826. Lastly the electron microscope began construction by Ernst Ruska in 1931.
The electron microscope can magnify objects that are as small as the length of an atom to one million times larger. They are usually used to examine cells and molecules. This is done by increasing the electron’s penetration in a vacuum until their wavelength is exceedingly fast. When this happens, rays of light from the electrons are focused on the cell on the stage, creating a duplicate projection on an electron- sensitive plate.
One can almost feel the searing penetration of Lewis Thomas’ analytical eye as it descends the narrow barrel of the microscope and explodes onto a scene of vigorous, animated, interactive little cells—cells inescapably engrossed in relaying messages to one another with every bump and bounce; with every brush of the elbow, lick of the stamp, and click of the mouse…
Dr. Joseph Henry Wythe (1822-1901) was born in Manchester, England on March 19, 1822, the son of Joseph Wythe and Mary Chamberlain. In 1832, JH Wythe accompanied his parents to America, and began his education in the private schools of Philadelphia where the family had settled. Through his own efforts and supplemented by private instruction, he became proficient in the natural sciences and the languages of Greek, Hebrew and Latin. In 1842, JH Wythe became an ordained Methodist minister at the early age of nineteen. Two years later, in 1844, he received the honorary degree of Master in Arts (M. A.) from Dickinson College Seminary, Carlisle Pennsylvania. .22 Two years later, in 1850, JH Wythe graduated with a medical degree (M. D.) from the Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1851, Dr. JH Wythe published the first edition of his book The Microscopist, or a Complete Manual on the Use of the Microscope, one of the earliest American texts on the subject.
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science in people's eyes. It gave kids, the new generation of this new world the chance to explore new things and
Antoni and Hook were known for the development of the microscope. Before Antoni improved the microscope, the microscope could only magnify objects 20 or 30 times their natural size. Antoni, a Dutch lens-maker, learned to grind a lens that magnified over 200 times. One of Antoni’s inspirations came from a publication by Robert Hooke’s book Micrographia. In this book the term cell was used to describe the basic unit of a structure in plants and animal life. Hooker wrote about his observations through various lenses. Newton was the most important figure in the scientific revolution because of his book the Principia. In this publication Newton describes the universe and its guidelines. In this he created the universal law of gravity and its mathematical equation. He demonstrates that every object exerts an attraction to a greater or lesser degree on all objects. The Principia led to the creation of the Royal Society in
...Optica and Dioptrice, laying the groundwork for all future optical discoveries to come. After him came Newton, who questioned the commonly held belief about light and discovered a fundamental property of how light worked and what prisms did. Fraunhofer had spent his whole life working with the same optical principles as Kepler. He performed the same experiment as Newton, but he explored further, and opened up whole new worlds of discovery. Today, we still use spectroscopy and Fraunhofer lines to determine what far off planets and stars are made of, and if it would be possible for life to exist on them. Thanks to the discovery of Fraunhofer lines, Niels Bohr was able to come up with his model of the atom, expanding our knowledge of how the universe works. All of these scientific discoveries were built on top of one another, and who knows what we will discover next?
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of structures at nano levels. It uses incredibly small materials, devices, and systems to manipulate matter. These structures are measured in nanometers, or one billionth of a meter, and can be used by themselves or as part of larg...
The four main components of the eye that are responsible for producing an image are the cornea, lens, ciliary muscles and retina. Incoming light rays first encounter the cornea. The bulging shape of the cornea causes it to refract light similar to a convex lens. Because of the great difference in optical density between the air and the corneal material and because of the shape of the cornea, most of the refraction to incoming light rays takes place here. Light rays then pass through the pupil, and then onto the lens. A small amount of additional refraction takes place here as the light rays are "fine tuned" so that they focus on the retina.
The 1800’s was a time of development in science. New and what seemed like crazy ideas were surfacing. These ideas were more easily accepted than in past years. There were new theories such as the Cell Theory by Mathias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann in 1838 (Farah 626) and the Atomic Theory by John Dalton (Farah 628).A little over a decade after the Cell Theory was proposed, Louis Pasteur discovered bacteria in 1850 (Farah 627).
Light rays gather through the opening of the telescope called the aperture and pass through the objective lens and refract onto a single point called the focal point. From there, the light rays continue in the same direction until it hits the eyepiece lens, which also refracts the light back into parallel rays. During the process, the image that enters our eyes is actually reverse of the original image and magnified because of the size in which we perceive the image.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was a scientist and was best known for his contributions to microbiology; he received the title of "the Father of Microbiology” and dedicated many years of his life to improve the microscope in order to attain incredible heights of precision of the microscopic lenses. He produced magnifications from up to 275X, with a resolving power of up to 1.4 µm. Moreover, he presented his findings from the material of animals and vegetables in extraordinary detail as well as being the first to observe a glimpse of bacteria that he found in water; the first illustration of the bacteria is demonstrated in a representation by Leeuwenhoek in the 1683 “Philosophical Transactions” publication. In this publication, Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society about his observations of the inside of an old man’s mouth. He found "an unbelievably great company of living animalcules [Latin for ‘little animals’], a-swimming more nimbly than any I had ever seen up to this time. The biggest sort... bent their body into curves in going forwards. . . Moreover, the other animalcules were in such enormous numbers, that all the water... seemed to be alive." These were among the first observations on living bacteria ever recorded.
Hooke was the first to present a depiction or a microorganism, and it is believed to have inspired Leeuwenhoek to be the first to view live microorganisms under a microscope. Their amazing breakthrough in microbiology was hardly accepted, since at the time many still believed in spontaneous generation. It took nearly 150 years for microbiology to really take off. Thanks to people like Pasteur, Jenner, Flemming, and many others who discovered microbes are a vital part of everyday life. Scientists have learned how to manipulate microbes from making beer, curing cancer, and even treating sewage. http://faculty.ivytech.edu/~twmurphy/txt_202/into_his.htm
Image intensification is the process of converting x-ray into visible light. “Early fluoroscopic procedures produced visual images of low intensity, which required the radiologist's eyes to be dark adapted and restricted image recording. In the late 1940s, with the rapid developments in electronics and borrowing the ideas from vacuum tube technology, scientists invented the x-ray image intensifier, which considerably brightened fluoroscopic images” (Wang & Blackburn, 2000, np). We will explore the image-intensification tube, the various gain parameters associated with the tube, and the magnification mode of the image intensifier.
The origin of the biological term cell came from Robert Hooke in 1662. He observed tiny compartments in the cork of a mature tree and gave them the Latin name “cellulae”, which translates into “small rooms”. In the late 1680s, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek was the first scientist to actually lay eyes on a cell. Before, there had been theories of “cells” but no one had the technology to see something so microscopic yet. Van Leeuwenhoek ran a draper 's shop and wanted to see the quality of the thread, better than the magnifying lenses available at that time. Therefore, he began to develop an interest in lens-making, with an interest already in microscopes and a familiarity with glass
To begin, a major shift in scientific thinking arrived with the dawn of the printing press and the new-found accessibility of knowledge. "Alchemy was from its origins a secret art;" (Roberts 66) secrecy was an absolute necessity in early science when a powerful recipe or method had been discovered, as such knowledge was a valuable commodit...