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Abstract

This invention discloses an optical system for enhancing the image from a microscope's high power objective lens that permits the simultaneous viewing of an object at both high and low magnifications through a single high power objective lens. This is accomplished by the mounting of high and low power lens train tubes on a microscope body and by directing a light source through a microscope's high power objective lens, then through beam splitters and then through said high and low power lens train tubes. The enhancement to the optical microscope permits the simultaneous viewing of a specimen at both high and low magnifications through a single high power objective lens. A magnified image of a specimen is directed through beam splitters, which creates multiple equivalent specimen beams. One of these beams is directed through a high power lens train tube, which magnifies specimen images to produce high power images. The other beams are directed through low power lens train tubes. Directing a beam through a low power lens train tube reduces the image diameter to a size suitable for viewing and magnifies said image to a low power. All of these magnified images can be viewed at the same time in parallel or sequentially, one or more at a time.

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