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Jan 1, 1286
first eyeglasses made
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Jan 1, 1300
A term for eyeglasses is used for the first time
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Jan 2, 1300
Crystal workers were forbidden to use ordinary white glass instead of crystal glass
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Jan 1, 1319
Regulations are developed to protect the glass making trade, requiring standards for materials and craftsmanship
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Jan 1, 1352
A painting by Tommaso da Modina shows Cardinal Hugh of Provence wearing rivet spectacles
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Jan 1, 1475
The first illustration of spectacles in a printed work
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Jan 1, 1535
The Nuremberg, Germany spectacles maker’s guild is formed
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The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is incorporated in England
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London optician Edward Scarlett (Sr.) is credited with developing side arms for spectacles (he is the first to advertise them)
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James Ayscough invents the double-hinged temple
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Benjamin Martin devises Visual Glasses with a horn annulus to reduce the amount of light entering the eyes
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Benjamin Franklin conceives of the idea of the split lens bifocal
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Beecher makes the first elastic steel wire glasses in America
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German artificial eye maker Frederick Muller fits a thin glass contact scleral shell to a patient who was missing a lower lid
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The first formal school for refracting is organized in Boston - The Klein School of Optics, which later became the New England College of Optometry
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eyeglasses are constently improved
