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SPECTACLES
adaptive spectacles
Adaptive Eyecare Ltd; Centre for Vision in the Developing World
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Oxfordshire, Oxford
c.2003-2009
plastic
DBL: 28 mm; eye: 40 mm; outer box: 53 mm x 190 mm x 85 mm
2010.133
SPECTACLES
adaptive spectacles
Adaptive Eyecare Ltd; Centre for Vision in the Developing World
Europe: United Kingdom, England, Oxfordshire, Oxford
c.2003-2009
plastic
DBL: 28 mm; eye: 40 mm; outer box: 53 mm x 190 mm x 85 mm
Self-adjusting 'adaptive' spectacles designed for use in the Third World. Dark brown plastic imitation shell frame with keyform pad bridge. Thick lugs with embedded high joints and screw-operated sealing valves. Reinforced drop-end sides supporting fluid-filled syringes with adjusting wheels and connected by lengths of transparent plastic tubing to the hollow round lenses. Together with a brown drawstring soft material case, a grey len cleaning cloth and a printed instruction leaflet. Contained within original supplier's white cardboard box with near vision illiterate 'E' chart pasted to inside of lid. (Two examples).
2010.133
Gift of Dr Richard Taylor, 2010