An Evolution Of Contact Lenses: From Glass To A Comfortable, Wearable Lens
Believe it or not, contact lenses didn’t seem very much different than their glasses counterpart, that is, they were actually made of glass! While Leonardo Da Vinci is sometimes credited with dreaming up the ideas of using contacts, the first wearable contact wasn’t made until hundreds of years later by a German eye doctor (named Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick, if you care). These glass monstrosities actually worked, but were made by real glass and could only be worn for, at most, a few hours. The evolution of contact lenses has progressed far since then.