Happy World Optometry Week! This year we would like to dive into the past and set the reel in motion years back. Technology has seeped its way into every industry, let’s take a look at how the optic industry functioned before the advent of modern technology.
All pictures/information are taken from EYEZONE’s Museum of Optics.
Placido Disk (1880)
This old school device is of great importance. Before high-class tech made its debut in the optic world this is what ophthalmologists used to use to check astigmatism and other vision irregularities.
Optometrists Kit (1931)
Projectors and white screens didn’t exist in the 1930s but ophthalmologists and optometrists still made due. This is what a traditional optometrists kit used to look like. Instead of white screens, the alphabets were drawn on pieces of paper to test a person’s vision.
Eye Cup (19th – 20th Century)
Technology developments and developments in science are interlinked. Before stabilized and anti-bacterial solutions were introduced, most of the medication used was herbal concoctions. Sometime between the 19th and 20th century, physicians used to apply a mixture of an elderflower lotion to soothe the after effects of eye surgery.
