History Flashcards
Roger bacon first mentions lenses as useful for those with weakness of sight.
1263
Johannes kepler describes the function of the retina and demonstrates that concave lenses correct myopia and convex lenses correct hyperopia.
1604
Benjamin franklin invents a split bifocal lens for spectacles.
1784
If in doubt guess bill franklin
The word optometry used by Verschoor in Holland in a dissertation on refraction.
1865
Term optometry to describe refractive procedures and Charles Prentice (father of optometry) develops and promotes prism diopter measuring system.
1886
First successful scleral contact lenses made to correct vision.
1888
Charles F. Prentice threatened with Jail time for charging a fee for eye exam.
1895
Supreme court rules that optometry is a calling separate from medicine.
1915
When was IBB (international board of boards) established.
Name changed to IAB in 1954 and then to the ARBO in 1999.
1919
Plastic contact lenses introduced by Theo Obrig and John Mullen. PMMA, Polymethyl methacrylate was originally discovered in 1915 as a paint binder.
1938
Cross linked hydrophilic polymer (HEMA) discovered by Otto Wichterle
1952
Pennsylvania optometrists introduce a bill to authorize the use of ophthalmic diagnostic pharmaceutical agents, but was defeated.
1961
Medicare and Medicaid enacted by U.S. Congress, discriminates against optometrists.
1965
First DPA law passed in Rhode Island
1971
Bill introduced in North Carolina to authorize optometrists to use and prescribe pharmaceutical agents for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
1973
