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It was first mentioned in 4 BC and written about in 1268 but still nobody knows who invented spectacles (eyeglasses).
"Specs" or eyeglasses took a long time to evolve into the "One-Hour" lenses found today.
Alberto Manguel, in A History of Reading, wrote[1] about the earliest known references to the invention of eyeglasses:
The invention of eyeglasses. RUCKER CW. PMID: 14439948 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
We have little record (at least in English) of the Eastern timeline of eyeglasses development, and hence, this discussion focuses on the Western invention and development of glasses.
1926 - The invention of the television created as much a need for distance-seeing eyeglasses as the Gutenberg Printing Press had for reading or close-up seeing spectacles 470 years earlier.
[0009] FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the eyeglasses spring hinge according to the present invention;
SUMMARY [0010] In view of the deficiencies described above, it is an object of the present invention to provide non-prescription eyeglasses having various features and advantages.
The invention of eyeglasses ca. 1286, and the rise of reading...
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