Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 11-16, March 2007

Karl Otto Himmler, manufacturer of the first contact lens

37 The Ridgeway Tonbridge, Kent TN10 4NJ, United Kingdom

published online 17 November 2006.

Abstract 

In 1889 August Müller (1864–1949) reported the correction of his own high myopia with a ground scleral contact lens that had been manufactured in Berlin two years earlier. This paper provides the first conclusive identification, based upon primary sources, of the manufacturer of these lenses. They were made by an optical engineer, Karl Otto Himmler (1841–1903), whose firm enjoyed, until the outbreak of World War II, an international reputation for the manufacture of microscopes and their accessories.

Keywords: History, Manufacture, Scleral lens, Otto Himmler

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PII: S1367-0484(06)00135-4

doi:10.1016/j.clae.2006.10.003

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 11-16, March 2007

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