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How Better Seeing Came to Being, Part 2

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In 1752 James Ayscough advertised spectacles with double hinged side pieces. These became extremely popular and appear more often than any other kind in paintings, prints, and caricatures of the period. Lenses were made of tinted glass as well as clear. Ayscough felt that “white glass gives an offensive glaring light, very prejudicial to the eyes, and on that account, green and blue glasses have been advised…”. In…

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How Better Seeing Came to Being

The History of Eyeglasses, part 1

The oldest known lens was found in the ruins of ancient Nineveh and was made of polished rock crystal, an inch and one-half in diameter. Aristophanes in “The Clouds” refers to a glass for burning holes in parchment and also mentions the use of burning glasses for erasing writing from wax tablets. According to Pliny, physicians used them for cauterizing…

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Out of the Ashes

Robert R. McCormick, a prominent member of the McCormick family, and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, championed a purpose-built lakeside convention center for Chicago as far back as 1927. In 1958, ground was broken for a $35 million facility that opened in November 1960, and was named after McCormick, who died in 1955.

On a bitterly cold January night in 1967, McCormick Place was ablaze, engulfed in raging flames. The building that was supposed…

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And Now a Word from our Sponsor…

Kidding! Chevrolet produced this interesting video back in 1938 (high-tech for the time?) about how the human eye functions and sees colors.

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars…would’ve been 5 if the lobster had snapped at that guy’s hand. Click HERE to view.

The end frame says “A Jam Handy Picture”.  Henry Jamison “Jam” Handy was a U.S. Olympic breaststroke swimmer (Bronze,…

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