Contact Lenses
notes: label: Description
content: This contact lens set 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: 1988.0336.10
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0336.10
label: accession number
content: 1988.0336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in x 3 1/4 in x 1 5/8 in; 4.7625 cm x 8.255 cm x 4.1275 cm