Contact Lenses
name: label: maker
content: Optical Research, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: William Feinbloom (1904-1985)—a New Yorker who received an optometric degree from the Columbia University School of Optometry in 1923, and later a PhD from that school—developed the first practical contact lenses in 1936, and established Optical Research, Inc. soon thereafter. That firm donated these contact lenses to the Smithsonian in 1942.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Optical Research, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-05144
label: accession number
content: 164336
label: catalog number
content: M-05144
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Contact Lens, Batch of
label: Object Name
content: contact lenses, set
label: Other Terms
content: Contact Lens, Batch of; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 12 in x 3 1/8 in; 2.54 cm x 30.48 cm x 7.9375 cm