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I’m no
MICROSCOPIST – I am an electrical engineer by profession
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I have spent
half of my working life designing a wide range of high tech electronic
instruments and am now regressing to playing with antique optical toys.
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How did I get
into being an antique dealer?
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An old, retired dealer, said “fill a jar
with marbles and take one out each time you make a sale. When you have lost
all your marbles you will be an antique dealer – so I did.
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But I did
have the first web site in the U.K. selling antique scientific instruments in
1996.
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This talk is
listed as -
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“All you need to
know about the early microscopists equipment”
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“All I know”
will be a much shorter talk.
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What I
propose to do this evening is to briefly skip along a timeline of the
development of microscopes over the past two or three hundred years, stopping
off at points where I feel a closer look is needed.
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If you have
any questions – just ask.
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