Photo: Child that flies a kite with ZEISS logo. Technical Milestones
1870 until 1889
1888
Large apparatus for projection and photomicrography

1886
First apochromatic microscope objective, color-corrected for three wavelengths in accordance with calculations performed by Ernst Abbe

1881
Ernst Abbe and Otto Schott systematically elaborate the scientific principles for the manufacture of new types of glass displaying new optical properties

1878
Homogeneous immersion objectives for microscopes; they form the powerful optical basis for research into infectious diseases with the microscope

1872
Ernst Abbe’s research results allow the production of mathematically calculated microscope optics for the very first time


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