Blast from the past: Telescope eye-glasses for blind from 1933

Well not many colors are known to the blind but yes, a desire to live a colored life is what drives these people to live, and hope is that driving force will make them stretch every step, in anguish though, for that little light that may head their way one day. Here is a blast from the past which claims to bring that little color back to life with telescope eyeglasses, just perfected by a New York optometrist that enables forty percent of persons incapacitated by blindness to return to normal work, the American Academy of Optometry was told recently. The powerful lenses enable a patient with only two per cent of normal vision, ordinarily classed as total blindness, to see clearly. Because of their high power the glasses distort objects slightly (something is better than nothing).

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