Timeline of microscope technology

   * 1590 - Dutch spectacle-makers, Hans Janssen and his son Zacharias
     Janssen, claimed by later writers (Pierre Borel 1620 - 1671 or 1628 -
     1689 and Willem Boreel 1591 - 1668) to have invented a compound
     microscope, but this is disputed.
   * 1609 - Galileo Galilei develops an occhiolino or compound microscope
     with a convex and a concave lens.
   * 1612 - Galileo presents occhiolino to Polish king Sigismund III.
   * 1619 - Cornelius Drebbel (1572 - 1633) presents, in London, a compound
     microscope with two convex lenses.
   * c.1622 - Drebbel presents his invention in Rome.
   * 1624 - Galileo presents his occhiolino to Prince Federico Cesi, founder
     of the Accademia dei Lincei (in English, The Linceans).
   * 1625 - Giovanni Faber of Bamberg (1574 - 1629) of the Linceans coins
     the word microscope by analogy with telescope.
   * 1665 - Robert Hooke publishes Micrographia, a collection of biological
     micrographs. He coins the word cell for the structures he discovers in
     cork bark.
   * 1674 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek invents the simple microscope.
   * 1931 - Ernst Ruska builds the first electron microscope.
   * 1981 - Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer develops the scanning tunneling
     microscope.

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