Like most industries today, the eye care industry has gone hi-tech, with lots of new innovations in diagnosing problems, correcting vision and getting eyes working at their best coming to the fore. There have been advances in surgery, the design of glasses and the manufacture of contact lenses too. Such innovation can be make it easy to forget the many hurdles optometry has overcome to become what it is today. If you go through the history of eye care, you will find that humans have used optical lenses a very long time; while there is still some debate on where the first optics originated, records show that eye lenses were used for decoration as long ago as the 14th century. By the 18th century, eye glasses and optics were widely used to correct poor vision. In spite of this, glasses did not become mainstream until the 19th century and, even…
