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  2. Rimless eyeglasses - Wikipedia

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    The template for rimless eyeglasses date back to the 1820s, when an Austrian inventor named Johann Friedrich Voigtländer [] marketed a rimless monocle. [2] The design as it is known today arose in the 1880s [3] as a means to alleviate the combined weight of metal frames with heavy glass lenses.

  3. Corrective lens - Wikipedia

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    This makes them particularly suitable for rimless eyeglasses. These high-refractive-index plastics are typically thiourethanes, with the sulfur atoms in the polymer being responsible for the high refractive index. [10] The sulfur content can be up to 60 percent by weight for a material with index n d = 1.74 . [10]

  4. Horn-rimmed glasses - Wikipedia

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    Plastic eyeglasses mounted in popularity throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s, ultimately supplanting tortoiseshell as the most popular material for eyeglass frames. [ citation needed ] Buddy Holly iconisized the horn-rimmed style, with his upbeat pop culture rock and roll music.

  5. Prism correction - Wikipedia

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    Prism lenses (here unusually thick) are used for pre-operative prism adaptation. Eye care professionals use prism correction as a component of some eyeglass prescriptions.A lens which includes some amount of prism correction will displace the viewed image horizontally, vertically, or a combination of both directions.

  6. Eyewear - Wikipedia

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    The first half of the 18th century saw British optician Edward Scarlett perfect temple eyeglasses which would rest on the nose and the ears. The innovations presented by Scarlett would not only spark some to look at aesthetic customization of eyewear for fashion within Europe but also lead Benjamin Franklin to invent bifocals in colonial America. [12]

  7. Eyeglass prescription - Wikipedia

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    Using a phoropter to determine a prescription for eyeglasses. An eyeglass prescription is an order written by an eyewear prescriber, such as an optometrist, that specifies the value of all parameters the prescriber has deemed necessary to construct and/or dispense corrective lenses appropriate for a patient.

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