(ARA) – Today we tend to take for granted the technological
advances that many of us use to see each day - light, thin,
stylish prescription eyeglasses that correct our vision so we
can live life to the fullest. But imagine what your life would
have been like a hundred years ago if you couldn’t see clearly.
Your options were to either simply live with the debilitating
condition or wear rudimentary spectacles that allowed you to see
clearly straight ahead, but limited your peripheral vision.
“Each day, millions of people wake up and grab their
prescription eyeglasses to start their day off with near-perfect
vision,” says Jeff Hopkins, senior manager at Carl Zeiss Vision,
a pioneer in eyeglass lens technology for 100 years. “When you
think back to what it was like to have vision problems just a
century ago, it’s amazing how far we’ve come. Today,
prescription eyeglasses are technologically advanced, widely
available and affordable.” A look at the last 100 years of
optics history shows how much prescription eyeg