Re: Recent History / Timeline of Microscopes (assignment)

On 25 Oct 2006 17:05:59 -0700, "ryanc@xxxxxxxxxx" <ryanc@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I am a in junior high and have an assignment to discuss how microscopes
have changed from the year 2000 to 2006. I have found older info, and
see lots of digital and specialty microscopes, but nothing explains
since 2000, this is what has been invented and what it is capable of
doing. Most info on the nicroscopes are descriptions, but no reason as
to why it has helped the fields of science. Please help! - Ryan


In some respects, they have not changed much from 2000 to 2006. But
that depends on which type of microscopes you are talking about.

There are light microscopes, which went through confocal and AFM
developments and then SEM which has seen basically incremental change
over the past five to six years. I think TEM is pretty much the same
other than moving from film capture to digital capture.

So, it depends.


Gary Gaugler, Ph.D.
Microtechnics, Inc.
Granite Bay, CA 95746
916.791.8191
gary@microtechnics dot com
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