Box of Beveling Tools
notes: label: Description
content: Box of beveling tools used by Kevin Michael Tuohy (1919-1968), a contact lens fitter affiliated with Solex Laboratories in California, who filed a patent for the first corneal contact lens made entirely of PMMA, in 1948.
label: Description
content: Ref: Kevin M. Tuohy, “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: 1987.0628.02
label: accession number
content: 1987.0628
label: catalog number
content: 1987.0628.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: box beveling tools
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 8 in x 5 in; 6.35 cm x 20.32 cm x 12.7 cm