GIANT MICROSCOPE
The weight of a microscope has, of course, nothing to do with its magnifying power, but the most powerful microscope in the world, which has now been built at Harvard University, weighs nearly a ton. and is so powerful that objects which are only 100 times as big as an atom can be photographed. The actual magnification this splendid Instrument will give Is 36,000,000 times the area of the object looked at. It is a scientific giant of the same importance as the new 200-inch telescope, which will appear to bring the moon within 25 miles of the earth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 11
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101GIANT MICROSCOPE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23517, 4 June 1938, Page 11
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