During a good part of the 19th century, called the Victorian times, a peek through a microscope could reveal very different sights than ones we'd expect to see today. In the mid- to late-1800s ...

A miniature photograph of the moon, beard hairs whose owner has been dead for centuries, a shaving of Egyptian mummy bone, flowerlike patterns constructed from butterfly scales and algae called ...

Microscopes became cheaper ... known only as 'E.M.' A revolution in visual communication took place in the 19th century. Images — like book illustrations, panoramas and illusions — became ...

Until that challenge was solved in the early 19th century, single-lens microscopes like Van Leeuwenhoek’s could achieve far superior results. Hooke was aware of this shortcoming in his design ...

In the 19th century, these optical technologies changed the way we see the world. The magnifying glass and the microscope reveal aspects of our world that are invisible to the human eye.

Microscopes at that time produced distorted images at high magnification. Later 19th century microscopes produced clear images at very high magnifications by improving the manufacture of lenses ...

The simple microscope played an important role in science all the way up to the 19th century. Such microscopes “were long thought of as something only naturalists used,” Giordano recalls ...

The microscope became an essential component of scientific enquiry by the nineteenth century, but in the 1930s a German physicist, Ernst Ruska, discovered that by using a beam of electrons he ...

So, just how did a 19th-century farmer in Vermont take these ... technique in an article in Popular Mechanics. As suspected, a microscope was, indeed, involved. But several of the other tools ...