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CONTACT LENS HISTORY

through the work of

OVERSEAS CONTACT LENS PIONEERS

Compiled and introduced by

Andrew Gasson and Tim Bowden

Introduction

[ In the beginning ]  [ The Early Years ]  [ The American Hard Men ]  [ The Soft Men ]

Click the names below for more information and illustrations

Acknowledgements

To the British Contact Lens Association for permission to reproduce our material originally published by them in 2006; and to the following for their assistance:

The Ernst Abbe Stiftung Optisches Museum Jena, Jan Ayres, Neal Bailey, Joseph Breger, Don Brucker, Margaret, Nancy and Paula Butterfield, Brigitte Caffery, Randy Danz, Harold Davis, Kylie Evans, David Ewell, Richard Feinbloom, Donald Golden, David Goss, Miklos Gyorffy, Robert Heitz, Brien Holden, Sybille Hood, Richard Keeler, Bob Koetting, Ron Loveridge, Lis Lowe, David Marco, John Meyler, Robert Morrison, Christoph Mϋller-Uri, Richard Pearson, Pierre Rocher, John Shennon, Carl Peter Soehnges, Maureen Storey, Sam Tripas, Klaus Voerste, Rolf Weinschenk, Kamil Wichterle and Wolfgang Wimmer.

[ The College of Optometrists' Museum for more Contact Lens History ]

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