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100 years of the contact lens
ARCHIVAL ITEMS
magazine
Optician
Europe: United Kingdom
May 1988
paper
overall: 275 mm x 213 mm

Special supplement to an optical journal, marking 100 years since the invention of contact lenses. A4 portrait format printed in full colour on 46 pages, including soft end papers, stapled. Includes historical articles on who fitted the first contact lens (by John de Carle), the early years (by Tony Sabell), the Golden Era (by Norman Bier), A Personal View (by Montague Ruben), A life of industry (by Philip Cordrey), In Good Company - a feature containing mini company histories, and modern advertising for: Polymer Technology Corporation (Boston II, Boston IV and Boston Equalens materials), Ciba Vision (10-10, Clerz, Mira-Flow, Solar Saline etc.), Focus Contact Lenses, CooperVision Optics Limited, Pilkington Contact Lens Products, Madden & Layman, City Crown, Hydron Europe Ltd (soft tints), Igel International Ltd (Igel 67 prima contact lenses), Insight Contact Lenses Ltd, Wöhlk Contact Lenses Ltd, Bausch & Lomb, Speciality Contact Lens Care Ltd, Ciba-Vision (Cibasoft Visitint lenses), Spectrum (the eliptilens / Hanita lenses), Chase Precision International Ltd, Hudus Lenses, No 7 Contact Lens Laboratory Ltd, Smith & Nephew Pharmaceuticals Ltd (The Optical Solutions for Gas Permeable or Hard contact lens wearers), Vista Optics, Optacryl Europe Ltd, David Thomas Contact Lenses (Leda GP materials), Alcon Laboratories (UK) Ltd, Allergan Limited (Oxysept system).


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