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Industry Present and Past Historical Resources Page
 

Lens Processing / Measurement Equipment Company History

The First AO Lensometer - 1921

AO Trial Lens set designed by Opticist Charles Prentice in 1900 (Optical Heritage Museum Collection)

 

AO Scientific Instruments

(Now Reichert)

Reichert

Coburn - History Rev 2/09

Gerber

Zeiss

Humphrey Instruments
(now part of Carl Zeiss Meditec)

 

Download Model 350 Users manual (early 1990s)

42mb pdf

Automation and Robotics (A&R)

Rotlex

Satis -LOH

Schneider

http://www.santinelli.com/company/history_main.aspx

 

Antique Phoroptor

Lyle Rubin's Collection (Corning)

 

AO's 1936 Eye Camera called the Ophthalm-O-Graph.

For more info about it, Download the a pdf file from an AO Booklet titled :

AO Reading Diagnosis and TrainingBook 1936

 

Learn about the Hague UV Lamp

 

The development of the first non- contact tonometer by Dr. Bernie Grolman (AO)

 

 

Lens Materials- History of CR39

 

Lens type/design history

 

Optical Industry Vintage Advertising

 

Lens Companies
 

Lens Equipment

 

Safety Eyewear


Sunglasses

 

Standards / Organizations

 

Links of Interest

 

Main- Industry Heritage

 

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