Saturday, July 31, 2010

Spectacles.....

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Did you know that the first eye glasses or "spectacles" were made between 1268 A.D. and 1289 A.D.?  But.....people did not figure out how to keep them on the face until 1730 A.D. when a London optician, Edward Scarlett, invented rigid curved frames to rest over the ear! Bifocals were invented by none other than our own Benjamin Franklin in the 1780's!

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