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Website. ray-ban .com. Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million. [ 1][ 2]
1-800 Contacts. 1-800 Contacts Inc. is an American contact lens retailer based in Draper, Utah. The brands that 1-800 Contacts use includes Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Alcon, Bausch & Lomb and CooperVision. The company was founded as the industry's first way to buy contacts online and has since expanded to provide online prescription ...
Bausch & Lomb (since 2010 stylized as Bausch + Lomb[ 2]) is an American-Canadian eye health products company based in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of contact lenses, [ 3] lens care products, pharmaceuticals, intraocular lenses, and other eye surgery products. [ 4][ 5] The company was founded in Rochester ...
Aviator sunglasses. F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, with AN 6531 sunglasses (1942) Aviator sunglasses are a style of sunglasses that was developed by a group of American firms. The original Bausch & Lomb design is now commercially marketed as Ray-Ban Aviators, although other manufacturers also produce aviator-style sunglasses.
John Jacob Bausch. John Jacob Bausch (born Johann Jakob Bausch; July 25, 1830 – February 14, 1926) was a German-American maker of optical instruments who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (with Henry Lomb ). Over six decades he transformed his small, local optical shop into a large-scale international enterprise, pioneering the American optical industry.
A Chinese automotive glass maker says it was not the target of a federal investigation that temporarily shut down production last week at its Ohio plant, the subject of the Oscar-winning Netflix ...
The design was introduced in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb for issue to U.S. military aviators. As a fashion statement, aviator sunglasses are often made in mirrored, colored, and wrap-around styles. The model first gained popularity in the 1940s when Douglas MacArthur was seen sporting a pair at the Pacific Theatre. However, it was in the late 1960s ...
The Indianapolis Children's Museum's iconic dinosaurs sport solar eclipse glasses on April 2, 2024, ahead of a total solar eclipse on April 8.