It will allow users to browse through at least 3,000 slides and study them via two methods: One will enable them to zoom-in on slide specimens as though studying a streetscape on Google Maps. The ...

A slide mounter and optician J.B. Dancer perfected the process for miniaturizing photos for microscope slides in the early 1850s. These slides depicted famous people, art, buildings, landmarks and ...

Most microscopes use LED lights to illuminate objects and specimens on slides. There are microscopes with single-source LEDs beneath the slides for viewing transparent materials, and dual-LED ...

Most microscopes use LED lights to illuminate objects and specimens on slides. There are microscopes with single-source LEDs beneath the slides for viewing transparent materials, and dual-LED ...

Specimens range from entire insects and early-stage animal embryos to sections from much larger animals, such as giraffes. Some of the slides are themselves miniature works of art, decorated with ...

If you decide to power your microscope with sunlight, you’ll need to direct these rays to the condenser lens and then through the slide specimen. This requires a solar reflector.

The Museum has around 2.5 million microscope slides in its collections, which are either vertically or horizontally stored. i) Whole slide digitisation The Digital Collections Programme has developed ...

Their work developing the imaging system is a needed adjunct to current digital microscopes. Intended to be a cost-effective alternative to similar technology priced upwards of half a million dollars ...

Slide makers first used decorative paper covers on microscope slides — like the green and gold cover on this fern specimen — to hold the cover slip in place on the slide.