Contact lens key facts
Contact lens usage now and in the past
Thomas Young (1773-1829)
fitted a lens to a cornea with a surrounding wax collar to retain fluid behind the lens, neutralising it and thus showing that the cornea was not involved in accommodation. (COO 2018a)
Otto Wichterle (1913-98)
produces the first wearable soft lens in Prague, at the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry. (COO 2018b)
Adolf Fick in Zurich and Eugene Kalt in Paris
independently develop optically corrective scleral contact lenses. (COO 2018c)
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