Glasses: A Brief History of Vision Correction

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The quest for perfect vision has a long history, and numerous advancements were required to provide the range of products and services that today help millions of people keep the world in focus. The history of vision correction deserves to be remembered.
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@christian-michaelhansen471 4 года назад

At 9 yrs old, my mother realized that I needed glasses. I was squinting to watch TV. My eye exam diagnosis concluded that, in addition to being nearsighted, I had a condition called Keraticonis. It meant that my corneas were slowly eroding around the edges and I could expect to be legally blind by 18 or 19. At the time, the only outlook (no pun intended) was that I would need specifically created contact lenses that would ease the pebbly effect around the edges of my corneas. The disease is called binocular, meaning I had it in both eyes. At 25, the eye doctor was right, I was legally blind...in one eye. The other eye was simply near-sighted with a touch of Astigmatism. Thanks to the miracles of modern medicine, a solution had been found. I underwent a cornea transplant in 2000 that gave me back the sight in my right eye. I thank the Doctors thru history who made such a miracle possible. I also thank the young victim of a motorcycle accident for the cornea I received. Definitely history that deserves to be remembered.

@michaeldougfir9807 4 года назад

Very good. We need to hear more gratitude. Inasmuch as these treatments were given to us I would thank God too. Can YOU see that?

@pillager6190 3 года назад

@Alfred Simon I care. Likely not How you want, but I care.

@VegemiteQueen1 3 года назад

My step mum noticed me squinting at the TV and... told me to stop, because I would get wrinkles. Didn't get diagnosed with auditory processing disorder until my late teens.

@walangchahangyelingden8252 2 года назад

Amazing, I'm proud of humans.

@lindaplaylist170 2 года назад

@@VegemiteQueen1 auditory? You also have hearing issues. Ugh.

@maggpiprime954 4 года назад

When I was a kid, and went to pick up my first pair of glasses, I asked "how will I know if they work?" The optometrist, bless him, smiled and told me to turn around and look out the shop window. "Find the furthest point, and focus on it. Ok?" "Ok." "Great; now put your glasses on." And I did. And the world opened up in pure, clean crispness!

@davidmcmahon4633 3 года назад

Yeah first time I got glasses I went outside and exclaimed that there were mountains out there - about 30 miles away. My mom cried when she heard me say that.

@maggpiprime954 3 года назад

@@davidmcmahon4633 Ok now _that_ is epic! The mountains literally opened up before you! How old were you?

@davidmcmahon4633 3 года назад

@@maggpiprime954 Just starting Third grade

@davidvogel6359 3 года назад

@@davidmcmahon4633 That is when I got my first glasses to. Our family was in the car in town when we saw some kids playing in a window and my oldest daughter could not see them. We got her glasses shortly after.

@grizwoldphantasia5005 2 года назад

I got mine in the summer between 8th and 9th grade, and read every single sign I could see on the way home. Drove my mother batty :-)

@-jeff- 4 года назад

Having myopia and wearing glasses since my early childhood the one invention I praise the most was the invention of the acrylic lens. The day I went from wearing heavy "coke bottle" glasses to the fantastically light lenses was a day of pure liberation!

@scottklocke891 4 года назад

Truth

@paulzaborny6741 4 года назад

oh how true! Along with Vari lux lens

@charlieangkor8649 4 года назад

except coke bottle lenses have less chromatic aberration than plastic and thus sharper picture in the sides.

@paulzaborny6741 4 года назад

@@charlieangkor8649 Except people are not slide projectors. Modern non glass eyeglass lenses are a far cry from their OG ones and are more than adequate for their purpose.

@bradyelich2745 4 года назад

I just bought my new glasses with my first set of plastic lenses in the late 1990's. I went to the farm after work and helped Brother change a bearing on the combine header. He was swinging the sledge hammer and I am holding the pipe to drive the bearing onto the shaft. He missed, and hit a glancing blow and I got hit in my left lens with an 8lb sledge hammer. The lens cracked but did not shatter and stayed in the frame. Brother knew he missed, so he was hauling back on the hammer trying to slow it down. He grabbed me, but I did not get knocked out. The new lenses saved my eye. I don't think the blow helped my brain, but that is another story.

@cliff8669 4 года назад

When I first joined the Military, glasses issued by the Military were often referred to as birth control glasses.

@lynemac2539 Год назад

That's funny!

@brianloomis9351 Год назад

That's because they were so ugly!

@jarednoble3935 Год назад

They still are

@nonamesplease6288 Год назад

My son recently joined the Marines and was promptly issued his very own set of BCGs. They are aptly named.

@cliff8669 Год назад

@@nonamesplease6288 I wish him well and hope for the best during his tour. Semper Fi. USMC April 1979

@SunshineofDawn 4 года назад

From a 30 yr Optometrist to you, thank you for this. I will be forwarding this lesson to a large group of colleagues on Facebook. I have really enjoyed several of your topics and have learned a lot.

@charliesimpson2974 4 года назад

My school district decided to do eye exams for all students when I was in the 4th grade. The results showed that I was severely myopic (ie. 20/200 left eye; 20/270 right eye). When mom drove me home from the eye doctor with my new glasses, I was amazed that trees had twigs. I had never seen that before. I wish that I had been examined before I entered school, but they didn't do that then. My grades also shot up, now that I could see the blackboard.

@taylorlinton7050 3 года назад

You're certainly not the only one. The American Optometric Association recommends all children receive eye exams prior to starting school for that reason. Studies have shown a very high percentage of refractive error among criminals with a theory that they were unable to do well in school and were more likely to engage in criminal activity instead. Anecdotally, I've certainly noticed a correlation among my patients.

@sheilatruax6172 2 года назад

Sounds like myself when I was handed my first pair of glasses. I told my mom,"Those trees have leaves." She received her first pair when I received mine. So she just smiled. Love my mom.

@sparky6086 4 года назад

My parents both had paranoid personalities, so when my school teacher told them, she thought, I may need glasses, Dad & Mom said, she must have stock in some glasses manufacturer, so I didn't get an eye checkup or exam, couldn't see the chalkboard, and had to recognize people by the sound of their voice. So, I failed at school. We were middle class, and my parents were good with money and could have provided glasses for me, but I couldn't even get checked. When I was old enough, I went into the Army, and they found that I had 20/200 vision, but it was correctable to 20/20, so I was issued glasses. ...I finally could see. It was amazing. Later in life, I got Lasik surgery, and it was even better!

@82Echo411 4 года назад

Interesting. I had a similar problem in my childhood. Despite the fact that I moved from a back row in class to the front row & 1 parent wore glasses it took bad grades to get my eyes examined.

@scallywag1716 4 года назад

NO one should wait to get LASIK. I know a lot of people who are scared about the procedure. I was a bit nervous myself and put it off for 10 years. When I finally got LASIK I called myself a dumbass for waiting 10 years.

@daneclark3161 4 года назад

My brother got glasses and my sister got glasses. My parents decided that I just wanted glasses because they had them... Nope, 20/400 and I started wearing them at 10. I would fall asleep with my glasses on and when they fell off I wasn't able to find them. I had LASIK around 2005.

@sparky6086 4 года назад

@@jaywon06 I never held it against them in the first place. It was, what it was, and they were what they were. Overall, I had a great childhood. I haven't had children yet, but I haven't given up on it.

@sparky6086 4 года назад

@@daneclark3161 Now that you mention it, a year before my teacher contacted my parents about my eyesight, I mentioned to them, that the writing on the chalkboard was blurry, and they said, that I just wanted glasses, because one of my friends had glasses. In those days, no child really wanted glasses!

@charles-y2z6c 4 года назад

The history guy can see why this is important

@JoseRamirez-qm1rw 4 года назад

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@brucefay5126 4 года назад

I see what you did there.

@goodun2974 4 года назад

Charles, THG knows this is important because he is looking at the subject through the lens of history.

@charles-y2z6c 4 года назад

good 'un 😂😂😂😂 One of the best things about THG is the comments that are double entendres and hilarious.

@AceGreene 4 года назад

Harold Slick great Stephen King short.

@pamelamays4186 4 года назад

History Guy is a true visionary. There's more to him than meets the eye. His videos are spec- tacular! 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

@McKildafor 4 года назад

Oh dear God... I'm Dead

@RobRidleyLive 4 года назад

Raise our glasses to him I suppose

@rldenny2 3 года назад

Groan...

@MemphiStig 3 года назад

i see what you did there

@seatedliberty 4 года назад

Archimedes was widely known to have stolen the idea for his device from one of his assistants but refused to acknowledge the assistant's work or share any of the credit. This was the first known example of the Archimedes' screw.

@deadfreightwest5956 4 года назад

Which is why Edison's light bulb is screwed in, too.

@etheroar6312 4 года назад

@@deadfreightwest5956 Which goes along with how many mice does it take to screw in a lightbulb.

@johnopalko5223 4 года назад

I don't know whether to groan or applaud.

@MrZippy052 4 года назад

@@johnopalko5223 groan definitely groan

@ChallisVenstra 4 года назад

You got me 😂

@hankfacer7098 4 года назад

What an amazing history of vision problems. Born in 1945 my early eyecare was poor and in the 1950's suffered a great deal at school. Thanks for the video.

@christopherconard2831 4 года назад

I was 15 when they finally figured out how bad my vision was. I still remember seeing leaves on trees for the first time.

@trishthehomesteader9873 4 года назад

I felt the same after cataract surgery. I don't ever remember being able to see pine needles out the window.

@cmo_rocks 4 года назад

I was 17 and just as amazed to this day when I look at trees.

@tpobrienjr 4 года назад

My wife says the same thing: Leaves!

@joseybryant7577 3 года назад

Can say as well, that leaves are the first thing I noticed.

@MissLilRedRooster 3 года назад

I was about seven when I discovered leaves myself.

@boevansrealty8050 4 года назад

At the turn of the millennium, the Wall Street Journal published a special edition ranking the 100 most important inventions of the last 1000 years. Their choice for number 1 was eyeglasses

@lizj5740 4 года назад

Do you have a link? I can only find an 11 January 1999 WSJ article, The Millenium's most influential inventions", that gives several people's opinion about this, starting with Peter J. Drucker: "The one single event in the last millennium that had the most lasting impact is the invention of printing with movable type by Gutenberg between 1445 and 1455." No one mentions eyeglasses.

@boevansrealty8050 4 года назад

LizJ sorry I don’t. I do remember it was a special section and I believe it was written by the editors. . Guttenberg’s printing press was mentioned, but it was pointed out that the printing press would be useless for many people without eyeglasses. I have a vague memory of the article you refer to as well.

@lizj5740 4 года назад

@@boevansrealty8050 Thanks. I appreciate your reply.

@omgsam7185 4 года назад

the amazing thing about this channel is that the topics are not click-baiting, but peculiar. they create a mild interest and you wouldnt even realize how you ended up watching 10 videos of THG

@samTollefson 4 года назад

I always enjoy your history "shorts", Thank You. Jack Weatherford in his book "Indian Givers" relates that the ancient Toltec or Aztec peoples would hand grind clear Quartz like mineral stones into a lense. The recipient would visit the grinder every month or so and look through the lense and report his distance vision improvement until corrected. He would then wear the lense like a talisman around his neck to pull out and look through as needed. I mention this because often Indigenous American history is often overlooked or downplayed in modern American and European history books.

@lisamills3228 4 года назад

I was 4 when I got my first pair, 1964. Should have gotten them earlier. They correct as I have been told, both near and far sightedness. In my 50s had both eyes corrected for cataracts. With a further diagnosis of Presumed Primary Ocular Histoplasmosis. Thanks to all the people who have done all the research, so I can see as a normal person

@H00L3y 4 года назад

Didn't see this coming

@jacockistitsworth9392 4 года назад

Nice.

@joeyjamison5772 4 года назад

I see what you did there.

@warrenjones744 4 года назад

Groan 🙃😀

@coleberry9827 3 года назад

Get some glasses

@raydunakin 3 года назад

Good one!

@malcolmbrown3532 4 года назад

The biggest thing that makes me smile and find humorous, with regards to "glasses", is that the Hubble Space telescope needed a visit by the Opticians and fitting with lenses...... As it couldn't "see" very well an was producing blurry photos of the Universe. Turned out that there was a fault less than the diameter of a hair on one of the prisms. Since it was fitted with new corrective lenses, it has produced some brilliant, not to mention stunning photos of the Universe.

@stephenmorrissey1254 4 года назад

I like that some of the images in this video are slightly blurred.

@sparky6086 4 года назад

Interesting about potential mates w/ eyeglasses being selected. Supposedly, John Lennon didn't need glasses, but wore them, so people would see him as an intellectual or at least take him seriously. I noticed, back in the late 1970's and 1980's, that many people from poor backgrounds would buy glasses without corrective lenses to wear, when they got dressed up to go out on the town, hoping to meet a girl. They had to be stylish glasses though. When I was in the Army, they issued us "BCG's" (Birth Control Glasses), which were glasses with frames so out of style at the time, that the opposite sex wouldn't give you the time of day!

@stanwbaker 4 года назад

Something of a Beatles nerd checking in. Some of Lennon's glasses survive and have been tested to -7.50 to -8. He was severely nearsighted, almost "legally blind before correction". This may have informed his issues with authority. A close friend we've heard of has stated no small part of his not wearing glasses onstage helped him cope with stage fright.

@sparky6086 4 года назад

@@stanwbaker Yes. Looking at pictures of John Lennon without glasses, he seemed to skwint a lot, which is a symptom of nearsightedness. I'd heard the rumor, that John didn't really need glasses from a Liverpudlian, whom I played golf with. People, even fellow Liverpudlians, must have assumed, because they didn't see him with glasses before, that he only wore them later for whatever image, which he may have been seeking, when the truth was, he probably began wearing them, once he was confident enough in himself, not to worry about it.

@charles-y2z6c 4 года назад

In wolf of wall street the character played by Jonah Hill (fictional Donnie Azof) he wore glasses with no correction to make him look more WASP

@charles-y2z6c 4 года назад

@@stanwbaker I heard those glasses just sole at auction for $250k

@WALTERBROADDUS 4 года назад

I love ladies in glasses. 🤓

@mcctravel 4 года назад

Excellent presentation! As a retired inner•city middle school history teacher (30yrs), I love learning more and “seeing” your presentations. “I see” said the blind man, as he picked up his hammer and began to saw. 😊👍👓

@charlesdudek7713 4 года назад

One of my daughters was told in second grade she needed glasses and we took her to an optometrist and she got glasses. She didn't care for them and only wore them in class. The following year we had her tested again and her eyes were 20-20 and to this day at 30 she still has perfect vision. I think with young children their eyes are still developing so it is good to monitor their vision closely and maybe not make them wear their glasses when not in a classroom setting.

@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 4 года назад

Eyesight changes with age. I have worn glasses for 30 years and my sight is getting better at certain areas while getting worse in the middle. Also changes in the internal pressure can change its shape and affect the eyesight, maybe even changes in blood pressure can do that.

@charlesdudek7713 4 года назад

@@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 oh yeah blood pressure for sure affects eye sight.

@inawrocki207 4 года назад

@@charlesdudek7713 Inflammation, sleep deprivation, and muscle fatigue all play a part in vision acuity on a daily basis.

@1953childstar 4 года назад

Your daughter was not nearsighted.. She had temporary "Childhood hyperopia"… That is much different than a myopic child not being able to see the blackboard...

@charlesdudek7713 4 года назад

@@1953childstar I recall she had some trouble seeing the words on the blackboard and that is what brought it to light. My point was during early childhood it is good to closely monitor eyesight among other things because during the growth years things are changeable.

@markpaul-ym5wg 4 месяца назад

I woke up one morning at the age of 19 and noticed i couldnt see anything.I have worn glasses ever since.Thanks history guy.

@gruberjens4354 3 года назад

This is one of the channels where I give a thumbs up before the video even started. And never I had to take it back :)

@FossilFishy 4 года назад

How timely, I'm waiting for my new glasses. Seven years since my last new lenses and a whopping 20(ish) since my last new frame.* Very excited! *Spending the extra for a titanium frame really paid off. 😀

@keeganwebber 4 года назад

Titanium is a wonderful material. Its holding my shattered arms together right now and won't ever require replacement, while being just soft enough to prevent bone atrophy Not a lot of metals with that long of a fatigue life

@paulzaborny6741 4 года назад

Yup. On my second set in my titanium frames. They are also tough to abuse and don't get corroded so easy.

@oldenslo4141 4 года назад

Johnny Nash passed away yesterday, 10/6/20 he was the singer and songwriter of "I Can See Clearly Now". Of course, his song was about love, but this song was used a lot by Optical Companies advertisements.

@Kazemahou 4 года назад

I once had a pair of Trufocals, glasses that use a liquid silicone lens that you could adjust with a slide switch at the top. The slide increased or decreased the volume of the optical liquid at will, allowing utterly perfect focus at any distance for my 50+ year old eyes. It was glorious. But the company was put out of business and my special glasses are long gone now. I wish that such would be made again, but, alas, there is a strong effort to prevent such an invention to exist - it tends to render the need for optometrists and multiple pairs of reading and normal glasses irrelevant. The current agreement allows such glasses - in a primitive form - to be provided to the impoverished third world so long as they are suppressed in the industrialized world. I, at sixty now, am acrimonious about this situation and the raw, capitalistic greed behind it. I miss being able to enjoy instant visual compensation as if I were twenty again.

@wendychavez5348 4 года назад

I've been practically blind since 2nd grade, so everything about the history of eyewear interests me. Thank you for acknowledging its importance!

@mbgal7758 4 года назад

Wendy Chavez me too but school didn’t put their foot down until 4th grade so I didn’t get glasses until then. I remember getting yelled at for years to scoot back from the console tv but my mom never thought anything of it when I said I couldn’t see it.

@weeds526 4 года назад

As the son of an eye doctor and someone with awful vision, I appreciate this

@rockerneck 4 года назад

You wouldn’t believe what it was like to see leaves on a tree after getting glasses for the first time.

@DashPar 4 года назад

I’m thinking in 2020 virtual classrooms, history teachers just say “here, watch the History Guy” he can tell you more in 15 minutes than I can in an hour LOL!

@Spikejwh1 4 года назад

Yeah, but the History Guy is not a Leftist political activist and tell the kids that Trump is the cause of all evil.

@pawog04youtube3 4 года назад

@@Spikejwh1 he is not political at all that's why he is soo good, plus can you really be political with eye glasses?

@havokvladimirovichstalinov 4 года назад

@@Spikejwh1 eh, while I dont disagree, not the time or the place man.

@samiam619 4 года назад

@@havokvladimirovichstalinov So I would be out of place telling Spikejwh1 that he is right: tRump isn’t the cause, It’s the GOP Senate and HoRep that enable his traitorous ways?

@havokvladimirovichstalinov 4 года назад

@@samiam619 no, this isnt the place for politics. THG doesnt go into them for a reason.

@sandrataylor2323 2 года назад

I do so love listening to your videos and learning about history as I love learning. Thank you for making history interesting.

@larrygarrett724 4 года назад

I must tell you that i really enjoy your videos. As a lover of history since early childhood you enable me to continue to feed my natural curiosity on the subject. I never understood those students who dreaded history class. I always viewed it as an adventure that was actually true!! Thank you for your continued and appreciated work!

@tonygohagan2766 4 года назад

I see why this Deserves To Be Remembered!!

@tncorgi92 4 года назад

I think the time we spend indoors does have an impact. I never had vision problems until my late 20s when I started working inside and using a computer a lot. Since then I've been nearsighted and wear glasses almost all of the time.

@terryhickman7929 4 года назад

Very interesting! I wonder about an article I read many MANY years ago, about how ancient Japanese used small bags of sand, placed on the eyelids as one slept, which would correct near-sightedness for several hours after a good night's sleep. I guess they compressed the cornea a little bit, mashing it into a more normal shape and sharpening the vision. I wonder if that's true. It wouldn't work for me; I toss & turn too much while I sleep to keep them in place.

@jerryumfress9030 4 года назад

I was diagnosed with nearsightedness when I was 11. I also had damage to my right eye that same year after being hit with a volley ball. Over the years my eyesight has gone from seeing distances almost perfectly, but up close I need readers. I'm 68 now, and getting along very well. Thanks for this post, it's very informative!

@therealanyaku 4 года назад

Missing an important step in the development of eye glasses: Among his many contributions, Johannes Kepler published a detailed explanation of the optics of meniscus lenses. Subsequently lens makers began the widespread use of meniscus lenses in eye glasses, which greatly expand the useful field of view using them.

@Daekar3 4 года назад

I never get tired of the introduction puns and the "I know that was cheesy and I love it" smile. 😊

@StefanGrit 4 года назад

Eye opening piece.

@Auntypatti 3 года назад

Just have to say I really enjoy your videos. I have always loved history. I have spent my life, since the age of 14 gathering my own family history. Went through a love of renaissance and now am going through a study of pre-history, 20,000 by. I remember a history professor I had in junior college who made learning history a joy. You remind me of him. Keep it up.

@DaveTexas 4 года назад

The fact that eye/vision care isn’t included in health insurance in the U.S. is criminal (as is the lack of dental care). For-profit insurance is the cause of so many health problems in the U.S., eye problems being a big part of that, since so few people have access to affordable vision care. When you do have the option to include vision as an add-on to health insurance, it rarely covers expensive treatments. I’ve had serious problems with my eyesight all my life - I had cataracts in my forties - but I haven’t had an eye exam in about five years because I don’t have insurance that covers vision and I simply can’t afford any form of treatment, so there’s no point getting an exam.

@minuteman4199 4 года назад

I live in Canada where we have "free" health insurance. I pay 50 percent in Income tax and 15 percent in sales tax. My "free" healthcare costs me 50 K a year. It doesn't cover eye exams or glasses. I can get an eye exam for 90 dollars and a glasses for a few hundred. I have no idea what cataract surgery costs but if you only need glasses, they're not that expensive.

@MarkEvans-wx3sg 6 дней назад

Vote Republican!

@bobw222 4 года назад

At 68 I now have 20/20 vision. I had cataract surgery and my lenses were replaced with artificial ones. The huge change is that now I need reading glasses where I never needed them before. Wish I could have had the lenses replace in my 20's, it would have made a huge difference, and perhaps opened up different opportunities for careers.

@Sandy.J.Lloyd.Sr. 4 года назад

Love the History Guy, great show

@chrisking1334 3 года назад

Fascinating - as ever! Thanks for all that you do. Might I respectfully request, please, for my Chicagoan wife now resident in the UK, something about the incredible engineering that went into the reversal of the flow of the Chicago river? - it's a genuinely fascinating story! All the best, Chris, UK

@jarannoiseux-mackay3405 4 года назад

"Thirdly, there is plenty of evidence of prehistoric humans taking care of disabled members of their group for long periods." Insert at 2m38s.

@gtbkts 4 года назад

Commenting for support

@rudolfabelin383 4 года назад

This would make the movie "The name of the rose", which takes place in 1327, historically quite accurate where Sean Connery is worried where his glasses are (if I remeber correctly).

@GraemePayne1967Marine 3 года назад

Another excellent topic well presented. I started wearing eyeglasses at age 7, I'm now in my 70s. Nearsighted in one eye, farsighted in the other, and different angles of astigmatism in each eye. I'm thankful for eyeglasses, and for modern progressive lenses made of lightweight acrylic.

@noelthorley3248 4 года назад

Nice one as usual. On this subject, could you please look into the life and work of Fred Hollows. ( yes pun fully intended) A great man worth mentioning. Thank you.

@jackbootsman5672 4 года назад

Thanks for that. Saw 20/15 most of my life. Detiorated over time. Had cataract surgerary last Feburary. Amazing. Can see better than 20/20 now and, makes night driving easier.

@its1110 4 года назад

I've had terrible eyesight my whole life. People that can see tend to take their eyesight for granted. They should not!

@Ellesmere888 4 года назад

Terrific presentation ! I knew of at least two girls in law school who wore non-corrective glasses to give them that ''intellectual'' look. As a young marine navigation officer, I had excellent vision. In my mid-forties it started to deteriorate and I started buying those cheap reading glasses that I wore around my neck with a lanyard. Now at 60 years of age, I couldn't get out of a parking lot without my glasses ... LOL Thanks THG !

@williamdegnan4718 4 года назад

Clearly, a program pleasing to the pupils.

@rodneycarey44 4 года назад

Both The History Guy and Girl have a knack for making everything interesting. Thank you for sharing who we are and how we got here

@jphilb 4 года назад

I have had bad nearsightedness since I was 10. I often wondered if I had been born thousands of years ago if I would have survived to reach my teens.

@richardklug822 4 года назад

I also was diagnosed and treated for severe myopia at 10, but removed my ugly "Buddy Holly" framed glasses whenever I away from our house and my parents. This continued until the day I walked into a lamp pole and knocked myself flat...been wearing (much more attractive ones) for 60 yrs. now!

@JustAManFromThePast 4 года назад

Homer did!

@sharronkelly115 4 года назад

@@richardklug822 I loved the Buddy Holly frames! Then with the advertising of titanium frames by LensCrafters in the year 1999-2000. I saved my money and was all prepared to buy them. At over 900 dollars. When I broke my Buddy Holly frames at work. I did not complain at all. But the assistant general manager told me he witness the accident and said the company would pay despite my ability to provide for my own needs. I got the exam and the glasses. Close to a thousand dollars. I was reimburse by my job in cash. I miss my job with Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey red unit circus. It happen pushing the Bengal tiger cat cages for the Greatest Show on Earth in Ohio working on transportation crew.

@kyqx 4 года назад

Thanks for covering this subject. With age, I've finally bought some "cheaters" and wondered how the older folks in the past dealt with the loss of their reading ability. It must have been very frustrating.

@Traderjoe 4 года назад

I remember my older cousin wearing glass contact lenses in the early 1970s and we were out hunting and suddenly one of them popped out and we spent hours on our hands and knees trying to find it

@timatkins2324 4 года назад

Another good episode. You mentioned lens couching to "treat" cataracts. In the Middle Ages, another procedure was used to extract the lens with a small rigid tube. The "surgeon" would insert the sharp end far enough into the eye to reach the lens - then suck it out.

@pipepicasso8112 4 года назад

You left out Navil R. Johnson's invention of the Opti-grab.😁

@t.lawrencewheatman1640 2 года назад

What a jerk. LOL

@IglooGaming1775 4 года назад

You’re a scholar and a visionary sir. I love watching your videos. 😊

@jonathanirvin2201 4 года назад

As a fan of your channel I usually love your videos but this one really hits home. As a spectacle wearer since fourth grade I have an all-too-intimate acquaintance with all things ophthalmic.Thank you, The History Guy, for your continued high standards, both historical and artistic. This is one awesome channel!

@wearemilesfromnowhere4630 4 года назад

My priest constantly warned us boys growing up as to those activities that would make you go blind.

@williamdegnan4718 4 года назад

So you stopped when you needed glasses?

@cheerdiver 4 года назад

Did he follow up with ALTERnative suggestions?

@216trixie 4 года назад

Your priest should have warned you about other priests touching you.

@jacockistitsworth9392 4 года назад

The priest made me go blind.

@wearemilesfromnowhere4630 4 года назад

@@216trixie yep, they hate competition.

@kmlammto 4 года назад

Laser surgery was being tested in the 60’s in Philadelphia at the Hannemann Eye Hospital. They did not have the process down yet. My aunt ended up blind due to this testing period. In hindsight, it would have been much better to do only one eye at a time. She may have retained some sight had they done so. However, failure teaches more than success. If it wasn’t for people like my aunt, lasik would not be as successful today.

@Mikemikemike13579 4 года назад

“Doctor my eyes, tell me what it wrong. Was I unwise to keep them open for so long?” 🎵

@sharronkelly115 4 года назад

I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind. It's going to be a bright sunshiny day. June 23rd 1972 Jimmy Cliff

@goodun2974 4 года назад

"You talk about your woman /I wish you could see mine/ when she starts to lovin'/ she brings eyesight to the blind....." Sonny Boy Williamson (later borrowed by the Who for the Tommy record).

@the_original_Bilb_Ono 4 года назад

I look at the floor, and i see it needs sweeping. Still my guitar gently weeps.

@goodun2974 4 года назад

@@the_original_Bilb_Ono , don't make a spectacle of yourself in public!

@goodun2974 4 года назад

The sky is crying/ look at the tears running down the street...Elmore James

@chrispeoples4606 4 года назад

Cool episode! In my physics classes I teach optics and do go over vision correction for myopia and hyperopia. This episode provides some backstory, adds flavor to the science part on my end.

@carsandstuff5199 4 года назад

Hello I’m watching from Australia Ps Love ya vids

@stevemann8374 4 года назад

I absolutely love your brief history video on vision correction. Surprisingly you didn't give any credit to Leonardo da Vinci. As an optician, we praise him as the father of optics and brainchild of the contact lens. Other than that and Carl Zeiss, it was great how you covered some of the theories of refractive errors and how we can correct them. This has been one of the best presentations I've seen, pun intended, about the history of optics. I will recommend this video to some of my old college professors still teaching the vision care program.

@HM2SGT 4 года назад

Another interesting, entertaining and informative THG presentation. 10 minutes since it was posted & there's already a thumb down? What could there possibly be to dislike about this? I think somebody accidentally hit the wrong thumb!

@jaywon06 4 года назад

A blind guy did it.

@cliffchism9187 4 года назад

He couldnt see which was which...

@cliffchism9187 4 года назад

wargent99 obviously you have a difficult time distiguishing between an angry response, jovial responses and someone simply expressing an opinion. Hope this doesnt make you angry. Wanna hug? By the way, your hypocrisy in calling out someone for not thinking like you is absolutely hilarious.

@HM2SGT 4 года назад

@@jaywon06 braille internet & RU-vid... you're right, I was judging too harshly. 😸

@HM2SGT 4 года назад

@wargent99 The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. E. R. Murrow Even you, as Cliff points out so adroitly.

@ferengiprofiteer9145 4 года назад

Ha! Been near sighted since 7th grade. Became an avid reader in 6th grade. Now, after 7 decades, I had my cataract surgery. Now I have 20/15 vision! It's awesome!! Now I have to ware reading glasses. 🤔, it's always something.

@hawaiiwavehome 4 года назад

Hey first like first comment. Been doing this a while. Thank you for your channel Sir!

@jonathanjordahl5345 4 года назад

I’m very glad to see the continued new direction in your work, exploring a wide variety of practical and fascinating topics, all of which have their own history with international, cross-cultural and multidimensional aspects that not only carry lessons for our better understanding our past and how we got to where we are, but also the implications and possibilities for the future. Thank you for learning and being willing to change, stretch and grow!

@sharronkelly115 4 года назад

One bright day, In the middle of the night. Two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. Drew their swords. They shot each other. A deaf policemen heard the noise. He came and shot those two dead boys. If you don't believe my stories true? Ask the Blind Man. He saw it to. (My mother often quoted this to my brother and me)

@swmovan 4 года назад

I remember something along the line of "'I see", said the blind man, to his deaf daughter."' I can't remember the rest.

@ronunderwood5771 4 года назад

I see said the blind man as he picked up his hammer and saw.

@jimsterrett8214 4 года назад

I got glasses at age 10 when a teacher realized that I couldn't read the blackboard. I really freaked out that you could see individual leaves on trees! Now in my twilight years I still need glasses for distant viewing, but was also given bifocals so I could read through them. These made bicycle riding (my go-to exercise) very difficult since I couldn't clearly see my pedals. So I'm back to single vision glasses and just take them off to read (or comment on another great video). Thanks!

@crazyeyez1502 4 года назад

"Benjamin Franklin made something like this.." "I think Benjamin Franklin made THESE..."

@steveclark4291 4 года назад

Thank you for the interesting and informative article ! Take care , stay safe and healthy wherever your research may take you ! Doing well here in Kansas .

@jeffherald8542 4 года назад

I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the ill-fated Opti-Grab handle for glasses, invented by Navin Johnson in St. Louis in 1979. (Lol)

@jazzcatt 4 года назад

Navin was a jerk for inventing that thing! LOL

@clockworkkirlia7475 4 года назад

Much like the technology you're describing, this video is a sophisticated, really well-made piece of kit. It's incessantly informative while paced so particularly as you wouldn't notice. I couldn't look myself in the specs if I didn't subscribe to an educator this good.

@constipatedinsincity4424 4 года назад

3:34 So convincingly he said!

@gregkurkey789 4 года назад

Loved this one. As an ABO advanced certified Optician, I found this fascinating. Thank you.

@13BGunBunny 4 года назад

I have been wearing glasses for so long, I can't remember when I started wearing them. At my last examination, my Dr. told me that my eyesight is close to 20/1000.

@keeganwebber 4 года назад

What's your corrected visual acuity though? 20/1000 is the top of the scale and standard charts dont even go that high lmao

@13BGunBunny 4 года назад

@@keeganwebber I said _close to_ 20/1000

@cafiend Год назад

My grandfather was part of a team associated with Rutgers University that pioneered research into vision problems as a hindrance to education. He practiced from the mid 1920s until about 1980.

@Lee-70ish 4 года назад

I Never miss an episode of these brilliantly presented bite size history lessons. its the only channel I've remained loyally subscribed to. I've had cataract ops and laser treatment so learning the origins of them was of special interest. Thanks THG

@Simonsvids 4 года назад

I am just amazed at the number of people on here who had parents who just did not believe them when they said, as children that they had trouble seeing! I have had glasses since the age of 8, when I told my mother I had problems seeing after a measles infection (which commonly affects the eyes). That was over 50 years ago. I made sure my own children had an eye test at a young age.

@RCAvhstape 4 года назад

I had trouble seeing the video because of all the puns in my eye, but I was able to hear all the jokes and found them rather cornea.

@BlueCat201X 3 года назад

Eye can’t believe you’ve done this. Congratulations, that is one of the best puns I've ever seen

@Dranka5 4 года назад

Super weird that I randomly had the thought, “I wonder when glasses were invented,” yesterday. Now I randomly find this video today.

@jamesmoss3424 4 года назад

Glasses are important.😀👍

@crcurley 4 года назад

As someone that needs correction and in and out if the industry making eyeglasses, I knew a lot of this, but still learned something. Even though I only made them, I had to learn the basics of optometry in order to learn how to make them. Optics is a very interesting subject.

@Liberalcali 4 года назад

I just got glasses and my boyfriend said he got his wish he always wanted. He wished for a beautiful smart woman that wore glasses. I didn’t wear glasses when I met him.

@kenwalz7231 4 года назад

Thanks for the info. I hadn't thought about getting my eyes checked looking for problems I just thought of it to get new glasses....I would have ignored any one else pointing this out...but not the THE HISTORY GUY.......HE DON'T LIE........there is your new moto!

@williamgrant6903 3 года назад

Some trivia: a proper testing distance has to be 20 feet (optical infinity) otherwise your Rx will be underminused. Think: light = a wave. When you drop a stone into calm water, the waves become essentially parallel (zero power) 20 feet away.

@jimsedlacek4897 4 года назад

WHAT!! I thought there was going to be a reference to an eye patch somewhere in this history. Don't all good stories get better with an eye patch especially if worn by a PIRATE!!!

@franknicholson6108 4 года назад

Excellent episode, as usual thanks for this insightful episode.

@surinfarmwest6645 4 года назад

With billions of people of all ages staring into their phones and computers it's not going to get better.

@kevinwebster7868 4 года назад

That’s a myth. Remember when they used to say watching tv in the dark or sitting too close would damage your vision? That turned out to be a myth as well.

@RCAvhstape 4 года назад

I'm sorry, could you write that again? I couldn't see it on my computer screen the first time.

@jerrell1169 4 года назад

@@kevinwebster7868 It is however not a myth that being indoors for long periods of time can damage your vision

@wendychavez5348 4 года назад

I am still convinced that my habit of reading under the bed with a flashlight or believe it!) a candle and spray bottle of water is what initially ruined my eyes. Other things have worsened it over the years, and many people in my extended family wear glasses, but I was one of the first, and I was only 7 when I first started wearing them. My eyes had probably been bad long before I admitted that I couldn't see; I tested at 20/200 then, and am currently at about 20/500.

@RCAvhstape 4 года назад

@@wendychavez5348 Wait, what's the spray bottle of water for?

@ristoalanko9281 4 года назад

I think I have listened this guy much more than I listened all my history teachers in school!

@claycountybrian5645 4 года назад

Greetings from Clay County! @13:41 Maybe because vision ( and DENTAL ) is NOT covered by MOST HEALTH insurance policies? wtf?!? smh Thanks again, Lance 46 thumbs up! 1 downer from the Health care INDUSTRY SHOW ME the history, Guy VOTE

@bradyelich2745 4 года назад

In Canada, dental (covered until age 12) and optometrists are not covered by our health care system, but if you go see a real doctor, then those items are covered.

@stevedietrich8936 4 года назад

Good morning THG. Thanks for bringing this subject into focus.

@dubyah8824 4 года назад

My cat has horrible eyesight, and so did my dog. Both are/were old, so It’s just a matter of time.

@216trixie 4 года назад

wtf?

@paulzaborny6741 4 года назад

Cats can't focus sharply at less than 11 inches is why they have whiskers and decent sense of smell.

@oliverheaviside2539 4 года назад

When I move my hand to scratch my cat's ear, he flinches if my hand is in his field of view. Now I know why.

@gstark32 3 года назад

Really like your 15 minutes of history remembered. Don't like RU-vid interrupting it 3 times with a commercials. I may switch to back to commercial TV.

@HM2SGT 4 года назад

All y'all making a spectacle of yourself with these puns, leave it to the expert!😉