Photo: Child that flies a kite with ZEISS logo. Technical Milestones
1990 until 1994
1993
Navigated neurosurgery with the MKM multicoordinate manipulator for precise, gentler brain surgery using “electronic pilots“

Market launch of the DSM 982 GEMINI field emission scanning electron microscope with combined electrostatic-magnetic objective lens (GEMINI technology)

1992
Video InfralŪ System determines the optimum position of eyeglass lenses by photographing and evaluating the data of the fitted eyeglass frame

Introduction of the omega electron energy filter principle with the EM 912 OMEGA transmission electron microscope

1990
20 x 60 S binoculars with mechanical image stabilization; elimination of the effects of hand tremor allows free-hand observation without a tripod at 20x magnification

Launch of the ROSAT X-ray satellite featuring a telescope with the world’s smoothest optical mirrors; the mission ends in February 1999 after the discovery of approx. 150,000 X-ray sources


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