I read Panitz and Rempfer’s paper “A transmission electron microscope for lecture demonstrations” [Am. J. Phys. 74, 953–956 (2006)] with interest. Another example is given in C.L. Stong, “The amateur scientist: A high school physics club builds electron microscopes,” Sci. Am. 229(3), 184–189 (1973). It reports on a physics teacher at Brother Rice High School in Chicago leading his students in making at least two versions of transmission electron microscopes.
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