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Who invented spex?
Dear fellow mahaloians! who invented spex?
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Around 1000AD, the first vision aid was invented, called a reading stone, which was a glass sphere that was laid on top of the material to be read that magnified the letters.
Around 1284 in Italy, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses.
The ingenious American inventor Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles in 1784. He placed the distance lens at the top and the up-close was placed at the bottom. Bifocal spectacles are made this way even today.
Around 1284 in Italy, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses.
The ingenious American inventor Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal spectacles in 1784. He placed the distance lens at the top and the up-close was placed at the bottom. Bifocal spectacles are made this way even today.
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