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The first lab petri dish was just a saucer labeled “do not touch.” Everyone touched it.

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The Petri dish was invented by Julius Richard Petri in 1887 while working in Robert Koch's lab, to grow bacterial cultures. It was not a labeled saucer, though it is a flat glass dish.

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