A SPECTACLE CENTENARY
IMPROVING DEFECTIVE EYES. A centenary of peculiar interest to many sufferers from defective eyesight is that of the first spectacle Irms to correct astigmatism, which was made just 100 years ago. The maker of the lens was .an Ipswich optician named Fuller, but the discovery of astigmatism, and the suggestion as to its reined}’, were the work of Sir George Biddell Airy, then a. Cambridge professor, and still considerably under 30 years of age. Sir George Airy afterwards became Astronomer Royal, a post wdiieh ho b old for 46 years, during which he completely re-equipped the Royal Observatory with instruments of his own design. Something like 50,000 astigmatic spectacle lenses arc now sold by British opticians every wceh.
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Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1927, Page 4
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121A SPECTACLE CENTENARY Patea Mail, Volume XLIX, 17 August 1927, Page 4
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