Lens Modification Unit
notes: label: Description
content: Lens modification unit used by Kevin Michael Tuohy (1919-1968), a contact lens fitter who was affiliated with Solex Laboratories in California, and who filed a patent for the first corneal contact lens made entirely of PMMA, in 1948.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kevin M. Tuohy, “Contact Lens,” U.S. Patent 2,510,438 (June 6, 1950), assigned to Solex Laboratories, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1987.0628.01
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0628.01
label: accession number
content: 1987.0628
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lens modification unit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 32 cm x 57 cm x 31 cm; 12 19/32 in x 22 7/16 in x 12 7/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: white case w/ dish: 10 in x 18 1/8 in x 12 1/8 in; 25.4 cm x 46.0375 cm x 30.7975 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: lens modification unit: 5 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in x 7 in; 13.335 cm x 18.415 cm x 17.78 cm