[Did you know] The Petri Dish

[ Culture medium… ]

….and it’s nothing to say, no culture media without a Petri dish

Despite the countless technical innovations that followed its invention, it is still the indispensable device in microbiology laboratories:

A cylindrical, flat, transparent box with a lid that allows the cultivation of microorganisms.

Hard to get more rudimentary and commonplace, yet:

It’s hard to realize today, how much this simple box revolutionized biology and medicine in the late 19th century.

You probably know its name origin