History Of Safety Glasses

The safety glasses are mainly worn by the professionals who are in the field of construction

, manufacturing, sports etc. Although for these people, the risk of an eye injury is high, there are some who do not wear the glasses for some reasons. In this article, you will come across the background of the safety glasses.

Roger Bacon was the first reported celebrity to wear glasses, or at least to use a device called "reading lenses." The first real glasses were made by Italian monks around the 1280s. It wasn't until 1880 that an "eye protector" patent was issued to P. Johnson, an African-American inventor.

Accurate safety glasses were not manufactured till the year 1914 when Garret Morgan used these types of glasses as a part of his new invention named as gas mask. It was not till the outbreak of I world war that safety glasses found their first wide application. After the makers of auto came to know about their success they started to use it in manufacturing the car's windshields.

Eye protection has been a benefit to mankind similar to antibiotics since before this time people would simply go blind, lose an eye, and wear an eye patch. Pirates, who traditionally wore eye patches, did so because the violent nature of their profession meant that many of them lost or damaged their eyes. Machining, metal shaping, and wood workers are all at greater risk for eye damage due to the shards of material that fly around when working with their machines.

In the year 1940, the companies started to manufacture these types of eyeglasses especially for the industries. The scientists and medical technicians who are in the position of blood contamination caused by splashed or spilled samples may also wear this type of glasses for protecting their eyes. There are some people who wear these glasses while playing sports also.

Most of the eye injuries are caused to the individuals during the manufacturing positions. Most of the time, lack of safety glasses was considered as a catalyst for high damage. There are people who think that these types of glasses are uncomfortable or one will not be able to see in a proper manner, but the truth is that they may save the quality of vision.

by:Robert Hooke.

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