New York Times' first mention of the contact lens.
Did you know that the first usable contact lens was made in 1888 from blown glass? It’s a fact.
You can find this, and other interesting historical anecdotes about contact lenses in a recently published New York Times article.
Take a look; it’ll give you a fresh perspective on something many of us take for granted.
As I toss my daily, UV-blocking, soft contact lenses in the trash, I give thanks for technological advances.
First Mention: Contact Lens, 1930
Content and image courtesy of the New York Times.
That’s more than a little frightening. The glazing material they had then was nowhere near as smooth as the compounds we have today. It’s possible that while the test subjects did not have to wear glasses, the contacts scratched their eyes enough to make their long-term vision worse.
How would you clean those? Windex? Wait. That would be too strange. Then again, glass contacts are kinda strange….Windex it is!
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