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• Steinheil and Seidel designed a small Galilean telescope in 1846 that was
composed of an objective lens of crown glass and an ocular of flint glass.
• The first telescopic use of a doublet objective and ocular lens was in the
panorthic monacle, designed and man-ufactured by Steinheil's sons in
Germany in the 1870s.
• It was not until 1910 when Dr. M. von Rohr, working for Carl Zeiss
Company of Jena, Germany, developed mathematic formulas (which are
still used today) for telescopic system having different vertex power.
• In 1928, Dr. William Feinbloom ordered a pair of iele. scopic lenses
from the Zeiss Company after studying von Bohr's work on the
development of telescopic spectacles.
• Pekar and Greene, of Ocutech, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC), developed the
Horizontal Light Path-Vision Enhancing System (HLP-VES) in 1989.
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