Mueller Welt Fluidless Contact Lenses
notes: label: Description
content: Adolph Wilhelm Mueller-Welt (1904-1972) was a glass worker in Stuttgart who apparently made the first contact lens that would float, unaided, on the human eye. An inscription on the lid of this case reads “MUELLER WELT / FLUIDLESS CONTACT LENSES.”
label: Description
content: Ref: A. Mueller Welt, “The Mueller Welt Fluidless Contact Lens,” The Australian Journal of Optometry (1950): 403-.
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: 1979.0700.03
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0700.03
label: accession number
content: 1979.0700
objectType: label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, set
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in x 12 7/8 in x 4 5/8 in; 3.175 cm x 32.7025 cm x 11.7475 cm