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The Glasses Apostle by Conrad von Soest (1403) Seated apostle holding lenses in position for reading. Detail from Death of the Virgin, by the Master of Heiligenkreuz, c. 1400 –1430 (Getty Center). French Empire gilt scissors glasses (with one lens missing), c. 1805
Edward Scarlett (1688 – 1743 in London) was an English optician and instrument maker, who first invented an eyeglass frame with earhooks in 1727. This frame is held by the nose and ears, at times the glasses were called in contrast to the nasal cannula and temples because they had short straps that pressed on the temple.
The dandy's quizzing glass of the 1790s was an article of high fashion, [1] which differs from the monocle in being held to one's eye with a handle in a fashion similar to a lorgnette, rather than being held in place by the eye socket itself.
It has been proposed that glass eye covers in hieroglyphs from the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2686–2181 BCE) were functional simple glass meniscus lenses. [40] The so-called Nimrud lens, a rock crystal artifact dated to the 7th century BCE, might have been used as a magnifying glass, although it could have simply been a decoration. [41] [42 ...
Sunglasses or sun glasses ... One of the earliest surviving depictions of ... (127 cm). In the high velocity test, a 1/4 in (6.35 mm) steel ball is shot at the lens ...
The Facebook creator credited Apple for making one of the most popular smartphones in the world, but he said Apple hasn't "really invented anything great in a while" since the iPhone.
Modern glasses, the most dominant form of eyewear. Eyewear is a term used to refer to all devices worn over both of a person's eyes, or occasionally a single eye, for one or more of a variety of purposes. Though historically used for vision improvement and correction, eyewear has also evolved into eye protection, for fashion and aesthetic ...
Two years prior, she was granted a restraining order against a different stalker. Image credits: waitingforthesun92 Well, that's it for this iteration of interesting and fun facts, Pandas.