The topic of my essay will be about chemistry and technology and will focus on the invention and influence of the microscope. Chemistry has helped people look at technology in a different way, such as how we use it and how easy it is to find data faster. Technology has also changed chemistry in several ways. Some examples are the discovery of new viruses and the discovery of treatments to prevent the spread of diseases around the world. The microscope has been a very important part of chemistry since its invention. There is some doubt, but Zacharias Jansenn seems to be the one who invented the microscope in 1595 in Holland (source 1). He invented it by putting together a magnifying glass and a light under the sample he was looking at. Once he did this, he could see 20 to 30 times what he was looking at (source 1). He wanted to observe samples that humans could not see with the naked eye. He looked at the earth, the grass and the blood even as he scratched the tartar on his teeth (source 2). What he saw will change the way everyone looks at things today. Society was in crisis before the invention of the microscope. Disease was rampant and people who got sick most of the time eventually died from it. Many people contracted the common cold, the flu, and sometimes the plague. People didn't know what disease they had; they only knew the symptoms of the disease they had. People all over the world were looking for an answer on how to stop what was happening to them. Nobody likes being sick. Everyone tried many ways to find cures to cure the sick population, but whatever they did only worked for a few days, if it worked at all. The remedies never completely cured the person of the disease. There was one big problem... half the paper... has already and will continue to change the way we look at things. The microscope represents a technological advance in chemistry since it was invented in 1959. Technology involving chemistry has evolved as chemistry involves technology. From observing cells 500 times larger with the naked eye, to observing cells and bacteria in an animal, to what happens in a plant and how it absorbs light, the microscope can change the world in just one second, when a new discovery is made. People have come very close to discovering a cure for cancer, but every time they have failed. A cure for someone who needs a cancer cure can happen in an instant with the help of the microscope and the necessary resources. Once people look at life through a microscope, there is no stopping or telling how many discoveries and cures we can find.