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When you go to a modern glasses store, you perhaps will be attracted by a variety of exquisite glasses. Most of them are well designed and good-looking so that many consumers seem to eager to make their own choices to buy their favorite glasses. However, few people are interested in the origin of prescription glasses. With the booming of glasses industry, all kinds of prescription glasses come into the European and American market and greatly satisfy the various needs of most consumers. At the same time, people’s curiosity in the origin of glasses gradually fades away. As a matter of fact, much importance should be attached to the publicity of some related knowledge of the origin of glasses. That is because without the original invention of glasses we would not have the technical foundation to produce the numerous glasses. This website contains a lot of information about glasses and you perhaps will find some related knowledge about the origin of glasses.
According to the authoritative historical records; the earliest lens was first found in the ruins of Iraq. This kind of lens was made from transparent crystal. Approximately in 1260 A.D, Marco Polo recorded that some elder Chinese people began to wear glasses when they read small words in books. In fact, eyeglass was formally invented in Italy in the thirteen century. At that time, the city Venice and Nuremberg are greatly famous in Europe for manufacturing high transparent glasses. This great invention brought great convenience to people’s daily life. Until the middle of the fourteen century, when Chinese Type Printing technique started to be widely extended in Europe, glasses began to be widely used in people’s daily life. Besides, most of glasses at that time were used to correct farsightedness. Later, in 1784, Franklin invented bifocal lens, which was designed by fixing the myopic lens and farsightedness lens together in an optical frame. From then on, through a long period, the technique of manufacturing glasses gradually tends to be mature.
Today, not only the technique of manufacturing glasses is on the way approaching perfection, the distribution channels are still improving. Now, you can just stay at home clicking on the websites like www.glassespeople.com to choose prescription glasses you like. Perhaps the shop assistants cannot tell you much information about the origin and the process of the development of glasses. But now, you should have a rough idea about it.
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