It's not clear who first invented microscopes, but they emerged around the 1590s with few of the bells and whistles they have today.
Two different sources are credited with the invention of the microscope: Hans Lippershey, who filed the first patent for a telescope in 1608, and Hans and Zacharias Janssen, a father-son team who wrote about microscopes in the 1590s.
#10 An old choir director of mine lived next door to one of the guys who developed the earliest patents for home microwave ovens. They were approved and being marketed by the 70s, but he wouldn't have one in his house until the 90s because they still leaked too much radiation of some sort.