Industry Present and Past Historical Resources
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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)
(Now Reichert)
Coburn - History Rev 2/09
Humphrey Instruments
(now part of Carl Zeiss Meditec)
Download Model 350 Users manual (early 1990s)
42mb pdf
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

The development of the first non- contact tonometer by Dr. Bernie Grolman (AO)
Lens Materials- History of CR39
Optical Industry Vintage Advertising
Main- Industry Heritage