33. LIGHT SOURCE/
ILLUMINATOR
A steady light source (110 volts)
used in place of a mirror.
If the microscope has a mirror, it is
used to reflect lightfrom an
externallight source up through
thebottom of the stage.
42. ProperProcedures
1. Carry the microscope with one
hand under the base while
grasping the armwith the other
hand
2. Place microscope ~5 inches from
the edgeofthe table
Be carefulofthe cord when moving
aroundthe lab tables!!
43. ProperProcedures
3. Rotate the nosepiece to obtain
the proper objective lens
Make sure the lens clicksinto
place!!
4. Look through the eyepiece and
switch on the lamp
This is your field of view!
44. ProperProcedures
5. Place slide on stage, center
specimen over stage
6. Locate specimen on low power
using coarse adjustment
7. Carefully switch to medium or high
power
8. Focus image with fine adjustment
Avoid damaging slide!
Do notuse course adjustment with high power!
45. Storing theMicroscope
1. the 10X objective is in place
2. the stage is allthe way down
3. the power isoff
4. the cord is wrapped around
the base
Four steps prepare themicroscopefor storage:
Editor's Notes
Circa 1000AD
The first vision aid was invented
(inventor unknown- possibly a monk) called a reading stone. It was a glass sphere that magnified when laid on top of reading materials.
Circa 1284
Italian, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eyeglasses
1590 – Two Dutch eye glass makers,
Zaccharias Janssen and son Hans Janssen
experimented with multiple lenses placed in a tube.
The Janssens observed that viewed objects in front of the tube appeared greatly enlarged.
1665 – English physicist, Robert Hooke looked at a sliver of cork through a microscope lens and noticed some "pores" or "cells" in it.
1674 – Anton van Leeuwenhoek built a simple microscope with only one lens to examine blood, yeast, insects and many other tiny objects.
process of enlarging something only in appearance
the ability of a microscope, to produce separate images of closely placed objects