The dog's name was Stan and wouldn't be notable other than for the fact that he didn't see a car coming the day after he was fitted with the lenses and he was struck by the car and killed.
The car that ran over it
In 1888, Adolf Fick was the first to successfully fit contact lenses.
Lyndon B. Johnson was the first president of the United States to wear contact lenses.
in 1844..
Disposable soft contact lenses, first marketed by Johnson and Johnson in 1988, grabbed the attention of consumers during the product's first years of availability and were expected to woo many contact lens wearers away from conventional contact lenses.
The first question is does she need to have contact lenses. If she does not need them then putting in contact lenses into your eyes when you don't need them. You do run a chance of your eyes being effected in a harmful way.
Leonardo Da Vinci in the early 1500's invented contact lenses.
The first ones were made of glass..including the power..
Californian optician Kevin Tuohy (1919-1968) introduced the first contact lens in 1948.
In 1948, California optician Kevin Tuohy (1919-1968) introduced the first contact lenses that resembled modern gas permeable contact lenses of today. Wichterle and Lim's discovery led to the 1971 launch of the first FDA-approved soft contact lenses in the United States - Bausch & Lomb's "SofLens" brand contacts. It was done for people who didnt like to wear glasses..
Specially adapted (no view finder) Hasselblad cameras
They were first made of glass, but now they are made of plastic.