Cressida's Transformations - art and photography THE ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AND NEURO ART   Click here to return If the invention of photography in 1839 changed the world, the invention of the electron microscope in the 1950s changed the world of science. The electron microscope can magnify objects thousands of times by passing electrons through an object and the resulting image is recorded on film. It is these powerful images, portraits of what the eye once could not see, that are the inspiration for the style known as NEURO ART that emerged in the late 20th century.