Microscopy for fun

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

This is one of my favorite microscopes - an inverted microscope:

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It works perfectly. I've had to invent projects just to use it.

Interesting. I don't recall ever seeing one like that before.

 

[TBRS1]

Interesting. I don't recall ever seeing one like that before.

They're a specialist item. They work exactly like a traditional microscope, except that they are rearranged so that the light comes from above, and the lenses are below.

I collect pond stuff in a Petri dish, the put the dish on the stage. Looking through the eyepieces, I see the things that creep about on the bottom - at the same magnification you get with a tradition microscope.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Here at the Museum of Oddities, we try not to disappoint.

My A C Gilbert collection includes two examples.

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Interesting how an athlete was responsible for interesting children in engineering and science.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I was delighted to discover that there are "nature" stores in large cities that sell science stuff.

I've never understood why or how people loose their natural love of science as they get older. Growing sounds like a drag. I'm glad I never did it.

I was exceptionally fortunate that starting at age 10 people took me under their wing to go fossil collecting. I saved up my allowance for a large volume of Index Fossils of North America.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I want to examine and compare some different fungi that have been growing on some of the plants around here lately under the microscope.

 

[TBRS1]

I want to examine and compare some different fungi that have been growing on some of the plants around here lately under the microscope.

Oh, very cool!

Are you going to be looking at them on slides?

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

That is what I hope to do.