8vo. Pages 553-572. [Entire volume: viii, 776 pp.] 14 figs., 3 tables. Navy cloth, brown leather spine label, gilt spine. Blind-stamp of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Mount Wilson Observatory. Fine. FIRST EDITION. The First Electron Microscope. "The first scanning electron microscope was built by Von Ardenne in 1938." Collard. The Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope "was conceived and realized in prototype form by von Ardenne in Berlin in 1938." Brown, Pais & Pippard. Brown, Pais, Pippard, Twentieth century physics, III, pp. 1587-1589; Collard, The development of microbiology,... View More...
