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Scleral Glass Contact Lenses

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Scleral Glass Contact Lenses

Category

Personal

Classification

CHENHALL - Personal Objects - Personal Gear - Personal Assistive Objects - Device, Vision - Lens, Contact

Object Origin
Date Built:

c. 1940

Physical Characteristics

Object Description: Two (2) clear glass oval, concave contact lenses with a circular lens at center and "X" inscribed to the outside of center.

Materials:

glass

Measurements: Object:
    Height: 1 in, Width: 1.125 in, Depth: 0.5 in

Credit

Gift of the Family of Donna J. Frey, 2010.16.1a-b

Display Status

On Exhibit

Scleral Glass Contact Lenses

About: Scleral Glass Contact Lenses

About: Scleral Glass Contact Lenses

Although first invented in the late nineteenth century, contact lenses first achieved widespread commercial success in the mid-1930s when plastic began allowing for thinner and softer lenses. Although these contact lenses from the 1940s are made of glass, they operate in the same way as modern-day lenses – by refracting and focusing light onto the retina so that objects appear clearly.

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