![]() His later microscopes used a draw-tube coarse focus and a knob controlled fine focus. Made of brass, many of these instruments had a black japanned base. Initially building single lens instruments, in 1857 his firm began designing compound microscopes. The German lens maker, Carl Zeiss, excelled at crafting precision lenses and began manufacturing microscopes in 1847. Instruments manufactured in the 1800’s are the oldest an antique microscope collector can hope to acquire.įor further history reading feel free to follow our link on the History of the Microscope. Usually made of brass, the first microscopes were monocular instruments with simple lenses. They can only be found in museums and are not available to the average antique microscope collector. These first fledgling microscopes were generally built and used by a scientist. Later that century, Anton van Leeuwenhoek refined the microscope for biological research. ![]() His invention, a compound microscope, had a convex and a concave lens.
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