Eye Mold
notes: label: Description
content: This eye mold belonged to Kevin M. Touhy (1919-1968), a California optician who, in 1948, filed a patent for the first corneal contact lens made entirely of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
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: 1988.0336.11
label: catalog number
content: 1988.0336.11
label: accession number
content: 1988.0336
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mold, eye
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 7/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 2.2225 cm x 2.54 cm