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SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM 150 YEARS OF CARL ZEISS | |
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| 1872 | Abbe's research permits the first production of calculated microscope optics |
| 1894 | Prism binoculars with increased objective separation |
| 1902 | Pioneering camera lenses: Tessar® - the "eagle's eye" |
| 1912 | Punktal® spectacle lenses - for the first time, identical visual quality over a large field of view |
| 1935 | Invention of anti-reflection coating on optical components |
| 1953 | Beginning of microsurgery with Zeiss surgical microscopes |
| 1962 | Continuing to this very day: US space missions with Zeiss optics |
| 1973 | The first high precision UMM 500 3D coordinate measuring machine |
| 1982 | Laser Scan Microscope - the quantum leap in microscopy |
| 1984 | A new era in electron microscopy: EM 902 with energy filter |
| 1990 | ROSAT X-ray satellite - the world's smoothest mirrors |
| 1994 | Navigated microsurgery with MKM: more accurate and gentler brain surgery with "electronic pilot" |
| 1995 | Reconnaissance cameras and thermal cameras in Tornado jets perform an important function in peace-keeping |
| 1996 |
New lens systems for semiconductor production permit future fabrication of 256Mbit DRAM memory chips SILEX experiment with Zeiss telescopes: testing of optical telecommunication in space |
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