Inclination Joint: Where the microscope arm connects to the microscope base, there may be a pin. If so, you can place one hand on the base and with the other hand grab the arm and rotate it back. It will tilt your microscope back for more comfortable viewing. What isRead More →
A compound microscope is generally used to view very small specimens or objects that you couldn’t normally see with the naked eye. A stereo microscope on the other hand is generally used to inspect larger objects such as small mechanical pieces, minerals, insects, and more. How does a stereomicroscope work?Read More →
1590: Two Dutch spectacle-makers and father-and-son team, Hans and Zacharias Janssen, create the first microscope. 1667: Robert Hooke’s famous “Micrographia” is published, which outlines Hooke’s various studies using the microscope. Who is father of microscope? Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): father of microscopy. What if microscope had never invented? Microscopes areRead More →
Spirochetes are unique in that they have endocellular flagella (axial fibrils, or axial filaments), which number between 2 and more than 100 per organism, depending upon the species. Each axial fibril attaches at an opposite end and winds around the cell body, which is enclosed by an envelope. What isRead More →
Yes. Most bacteria are too small to be seen without a microscope, but in 1999 scientists working off the coast of Namibia discovered a bacterium called Thiomargarita namibiensis (sulfur pearl of Namibia) whose individual cells can grow up to 0.75mm wide. How can microbes be seen? The microorganisms cannot beRead More →
The definition of a compound microscope is a microscope with a lens that enlarges the viewed object and an eye piece that further enlarges it. An example of compound microscope is Galileo’s “little eye.” … A microscope having at least two lenses, including an objective and an eyepiece. What isRead More →