BIC Museum of Microscopy – Olympus

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
BIC Museum of Microscopy – Leitz

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
BIC Museum of Microscopy – Beck Kassel CBS

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
BIC Museum of Microscopy – exposition overview

The museum main exposition overview

Show window 1. Zeiss

Show window 2. Beck Kassel CBS; Olympus; Zeiss

Show window 3. Leitz; Reichert; Wild Heerbrugg… Read more
BIC Museum of Microscopy – Overview
It 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
Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System
2013.01.10
Testing Nikon third generation Perfect focus System (PFS3)


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

Robert Stad (PerkinElmer) is acquiring the confocal image of the live HeLa GFP-Rab6 stable line cells using UltraVIEW VoX 3D live … Read more
Upright fluorescence microscope Olympus AX70

Emine Korkmazare and Ankie van Geffen are working on the skin samples of intracranial aneurism from a patient, looking for the collagen aberrations.
Primary tasks: Imaging of fixed samples
Microscope: Olympus AX70
Objective:
A full set of objectives from 2.5x … Read more