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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Reichert

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Reichert

The Reichert company was founded by Carl Reichert in 1876 in Vienna. Carl Reichert was a son in law of Ernst Leitz. He learned microscopy business from Leitz in Wetzlar (Germany) and then moved to Vienna to establish his … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Olympus

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Olympus

Olympus was established in 1919 by Mr. Takeshi Yamashita in Tokyo, Japan. From the very beginning, the company specialized in microscopes. The first corporate name was “Takachiho Seisakusho“. In Japanese mythology, it is said that eight million gods and … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Leitz

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Leitz

The history of Leitz (now Leica) has started in 1849, when the 23-year-old German mathematician Carl Kellner (1826-1855) established the “Optical Institute” in Wetzlar for the development of lenses and microscopes. Kellner had invented a new achromatic combination of … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Beck Kassel CBS

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Beck Kassel CBS

Founded in 1892, Beck Kassel CBS (Christoph Beck and Sons) were a family business based in Kassel, Germany, engaged in the production of optical instruments, primarily binoculars. Following wartime destruction of their premises in 1944, the company … Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – exposition overview

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The museum main exposition overview

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Show window 1. Zeiss

 

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Show window 2. Beck Kassel CBS; Olympus; Zeiss

 

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Show window 3. Leitz; Reichert; Wild Heerbrugg… Read more

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BIC Museum of Microscopy – Overview

Utrecht Museum of Microscopy - page 1 image 1It is difficult to say who has invented the first optical microscope. Lenses have been used to magnify images of small objects for many centuries, and the oldest known lens is 3000 years old. There are several different implementations of … Read more

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Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System

2013.01.10
Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System (PFS3)

2013.01.10 Testing Nikon PFS3 1

2013.01.10 Testing Nikon PFS3 2

Pierre-Emmanuel Monet (Nikon Instruments Europe BV) is explaining to Qingyang Liu the advantages of dynamic focusing system.

Cell Biology Utrecht University, Room O-524

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Testing the PerkinElmer Ultraview VoX spinning disk microscope

2012.12.12
Testing the PerkinElmer Ultraview VoX spinning disk microscope at Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research

2012.12.12 Testing PerkinElmer SD-FRAP 01
Robert Stad (PerkinElmer) is acquiring the confocal image of the live HeLa GFP-Rab6 stable line cells using UltraVIEW VoX 3D live … Read more

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