• Microscopes America, Inc., specializes in the professional onsite servicing, and refurbishing of microscopes. We cater to specific segments of the educational market: Public schools, private schools, colleges, and universities. We also specialize in servicing laboratory, clinical, and research microscopes for hospitals and government institutions.
• All of our microscope specialists have been in the microscopy field for over 25 years. Microscope servicing and repair is a craft and should only be performed by those whom have mastered the skills necessary to competently return your microscopes to factory presets, OEM standards and specifications.
• 14th century: spectacles first made in Italy • 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. • 1675: Enter Anton van Leeuwenhoek, who used a microscope with one lens to observe insects and other specimen. Leeuwenhoek was the first to observe bacteria. • 18th century: As technology improved, microscopy became more popular among scientists. Part of this was due to the discovery that combining two types of glass reduced the chromatic effect. • 1830: Joseph Jackson Lister discovers that using weak lenses together at various distances provided clear magnification. • 1878: A mathematical theory linking resolution to light wavelength is invented by Ernst Abbe. • 1903: Richard Zsigmondy invents the ultramicroscope, which allows for observation of specimens below the wavelength of light. • 1932: Transparent biological materials are studied for the first time using Frits Xernike's invention of the phase-contrast microscope. • 1938: Just six years after the invention of the phase contrast microscope comes the electron microscope, developed by Ernst Ruska, who realized that using electrons in microscopy enhanced resolution. • 1981: 3-D specimen images possible with the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
