Contact Lens Trial Set
name: label: maker
content: Bausch & Lomb
notes: label: Description
content: William Feinbloom (1904-1985), a New York optometrist, developed the first American-made contact lenses in 1936. These were composed primarily of resin and fitted to the user’s eyeballs. Bausch & Lomb began making contact lenses of this sort soon thereafter, and gave this set of nine corneal lenses to the Smithsonian in 1943. Inscriptions on the lid of the case read “BAUSCH / & LOMB / U.S.A.” and “CONTACT LENS / TRIAL SET.”
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: MG.M-05146
label: catalog number
content: M-05146
label: accession number
content: 164456
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Set, Trial, Contact Lens
label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, trial set
label: Other Terms
content: Set, Trial, Contact Lens; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 6 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in; 2.54 cm x 15.5575 cm x 14.9225 cm