Glasses

My whole family wheres glasses!  I got my first pair when I was 5.

I found the information below at the Museum of Vision website.

A simple historical timeline of eyeglasses starts with their invention, believed to be between 1268 and 1289 in Italy. The inventor is unknown.  The earliest eyeglasses were worn by monks and scholars. They were held in front of the eyes or balanced on the nose.





 The invention of the printing press in 1452, the growing rate of literacy and the availability of books, encouraged new designs and the eventual mass production of inexpensive eyeglasses.