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'Child Vision' self-adjusting spectacles
SPECTACLES
adaptive spectacles
Centre for Vision in the Developing World
Europe: United Kingdom
2017
plastic
2017.125
SPECTACLES
adaptive spectacles
Centre for Vision in the Developing World
Europe: United Kingdom
2017
plastic
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 lens cleaning cloth and a printed instruction leaflet. Contained within original supplier's white cardboard box.
2017.125
Gift of the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, 2017