Medicine 1930: Contact Glasses

Contact Glasses

Members of the Optometrical Society of the City of New York peered inquisitively last week at Grace Robin, 22, near-sighted Brooklyn stenographer. Pleasantly but glassily Grace Robin peered back. She did not appear to be wearing eyeglasses, yet she was, right against her eyeballs—contact glasses, such as had never been seen by the New York Society.

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