Contact Lenses
date: label: date made
content: about 1961
name: label: maker
content: Wichterle, Otto
notes: label: Description
content: Five pair of soft contact lenses developed by the Czech chemist, Otto Wichterle (1913-1998). Josef Robert Kopecek, the donor, acquired these lenses before emigrating to the United States. The lenses are housed in an amber-colored glass jar.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Lenses Made Pliable By Plastic,” New York Times (Nov. 27, 1965), p. 41 and 48.
label: Description
content: "Otto Wichterle, 84, Chemist Who Made First Soft Contacts," New York Times (Aug. 19, 1998), p. A29.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Czech Republic: Praha, Hlavní Město, Prague
topic: label: Subject
content: Ophthalmology
label: Subject
content: Health Care
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Josef Robert Kopecek
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0163.01
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0163.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0163
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Contact Lenses
label: Object Name
content: contact lenses
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/8 in x 1 1/2 in; 5.3975 cm x 3.81 cm