Case for Contact Lenses
notes: label: Description
content: This case for contact lenses belonged to Kevin M. Touhy (1919-1968), a California optician who, in 1948, filed a patent for the first corneal contact lens made entirely of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.0336.04
label: accession number
content: 1988.0336
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0336.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, case
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 1.905 cm