The origin of modern eyeglasses
The origins of modern glasses can be traced back more than 1,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the reading stones used by monks were glass spheres, sometimes filled with water and placed on objects to magnify them.Glassblowers in Italy created reading stones, similar to modern hand-held magnifying glasses. The reading stone can be placed on the wearer's nose or in front of the face. Later, Spanish craftsmen built the first cobra-framed temple in the 17th century. They tie ribbons or strings to the frames and tie them around the user's ear.
In the 18th century, Edward Scarlett created the first wearable glasses, providing more comfort for eyewear wearers. These early glasses had glass lenses embedded in heavy frames made of wood, lead, or copper. Natural materials of leather, bone, and horn were later used to make the frames. In the early seventeenth century, lighter steel frames were invented. As eyewear continued to evolve and prescription accuracy improved, the trend for eyewear to become more fashionable began. In the 18th century, bifocal lenses appeared, making it possible to correct upper myopia and lower presbyopia. Later glasses were designed to be fixed by a ribbon or by applying pressure to the bridge of the nose. In the 1980s, plastic lenses were introduced, providing a more durable alternative to glass lenses. Ultimately, the glasses used today are the result of centuries of technological and intellectual advances.
The sporty style
Sporty style frames are a little cool, full of vitality, well-designed. They pay attention to every detail, with publicity but not exaggerated feelings. With good material, they effectively prevent collision injury to your eyes in the process of movement, greatly improving safety. The style is simple and smooth, and the appearance is dynamic and fashionable, and the color collocation is diversified. With the integration of four progressive technology to better protect your eyes, they are your outdoor leisure tourism sports choice.
How to Get Used to Progressive Lenses?
In this section, we will show you how to get used to progressive lenses.
- Always wear them. If you try and ease your way in by changing them with your previous glasses, it will take a longer time to adjust.
- You need to find and use new areas in your lenses instead of using whatever space is most convenient.
- Make sure you have a comfortable frame that is adjusted for your face.
- Make sure that the optician fits the lens in the right way with the right equipment.
So, if you have difficulty getting used to the progressive lenses, try the above ways.
What is hard coating on lenses?
Lenses are mainly added in two kinds of film: anti-reflection film and hard film (and some manufacturers produce anti-fogging film and mirror film, but not common). The anti-reflective film is mainly by coating the front surface of the lens with multiple layers of transparent materials with different refractive index and thickness to reduce the excess reflected light on the surface of the lens, by using the principle of light interference. The film can be applied to both glass and resin lenses. The way of hard film plating is usually a soaking process. After many times of soaking and cleaning, soaking in an organic solution containing ultrafine silicon element for a certain time, and then keeping it at a certain temperature for 4-5 hours, the fixed polymerization process of the film has been completed. The surface wear resistance of CR-39 coating can be increased by 2-4 pH, which is similar to the hardness of optical glass lenses.
How to Choose Glasses for Long Face?
Bold shapes and eyeglasses with decorative details are also a smart choice since they help draw attention to your eyes and can add width to your face. Be sure to avoid narrow or rectangular shapes, which can make your face appear longer.
Square glasses: if you have a long face, you can try square glasses whose sharper corners can help to balance out the length of your face and complement your narrow features. Choose frames that are slightly wider than your cheekbones to make your face appear broader.
Two-toned glasses: if you have a long face shape, the two-toned glasses would be a good choice. The color-top frames create an optical illusion that draws focus upward toward your eyes rather than to the length of your face.
Plano Lenses vs Demo Lenses
When talking about the plano lenses, demo lenses will be talked about, too. Plano lenses are different from demo lenses. Demo lenses are nothing but lenses that are fitted into the demo frames at the optical showroom and workshops. The only purpose of demo lenses is to give a realistic aesthetic of the frame to the users so that they can get an idea of how it would look with corrective lenses. However, there is also no corrective power on demo lenses.
Compared with demo lenses, plano lenses provide good quality lenses that give your protection against harmful UV rays and blue light emitted from digital screens like laptops and desktops. In addition, you can also add an anti-glare coating to the plano glasses.
What Is Bifocal Lens?
Changes in vision seem to be related to age. Presbyopia, a common eye condition that occurs in middle age, causes changes in your eye’s ability to focus. But this condition can be corrected by wearing bifocal glasses.
Bifocal lenses are divided into two parts to accommodate two different prescriptions in one lens. One area of the lens will have one prescription (usually distance) and a segment in the lower half will have the other (usually near vision).
The bifocal glasses were invented by Benjamin Franklin, who solved his own vision problem by taking the lens from his reading glasses and distance glasses and cutting them in half. Then remade the cut lenses into a single pair of bifocals and put the distance lens on top and the reading lens on the bottom.
