Corneal Lenses
notes: label: Description
content: Contact lenses in a cardboard holder with inscription that reads “Touhy / CORNEAL LENS / U.S. Patent 2,510,438 / Canada Patent 487,485.” Kevin M. Touhy (1919-1968) was a California optician who worked for Solex Laboratories, who in 1948 filed a patent for the first corneal contact lens made entirely of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
label: Description
content: Ref: Kevin M. Touhy, “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: 1988.0336.07
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0336.07
label: accession number
content: 1988.0336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contact lenses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 2 in x 2 in; .635 cm x 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm