Who Invented Contact Lenses?
A Brief History of Contact Lens Invention and Inventors
This contact lens history describes crucial invention milestones. Who invented contact lenses? Just keep reading to find out the inventors...
From this brief contact lens history, for example, you'll learn when soft bifocal contact lenses were first available. The following timeline provides short description of important invention milestones.
| 1508 | Leonardo da Vinci illustrates the ideas of contact lenses |
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| 1827 | Sir John Herschel proposes making a contact lens that conform perfectly to the eye's surface |
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| 1887 | F.E. Muller produces the first glass contact lens |
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| 1936 | William Feinbloom produces the first contact lens containing both glass and plastic |
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| 1948 | Kevin Tuohy begins manufacturing contact lenses made entirely of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic |
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| 1971 |
Soft contacts
become commercially available in the United States |
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| 1978 |
Toric contact lenses
are commercially distributed in the United States |
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| 1979 | Introduction of rigid gas permeable,
RGP contact lenses |
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| 1981 | FDA approval of
extended wear contact lenses
(soft contacts) |
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| 1982 | Daily wear soft
bifocal contact lenses
become available for commercial distribution |
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| 1986 | Extended wear gas permeable contact lenses available |
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| 1987 | Introduction of
disposable soft contact lenses
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| 1991 | Planned replacement soft contact lenses introduced |
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| 1995 | Daily or One-day disposable soft contact lenses introduced |
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| 1998 | First Multifocal disposable soft contact lenses available |
So you get a general idea about the inventors of contact lenses. Click here to learn about contact lens history.
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