Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family
1760-1775
Japanese magic mirror
Telescope by John Yarwell.
1685-1695
Telescope by Christopher Cock
1673
‘Visual glasses’ designed by Benjamin Martin
1756-1800
Pair of plastic National Health Service spectacles
circa 1950
Handheld reading lens and case
1680-1700
Telescope by John Marshall
1685-1695
Camera obscura
1845-1855
Multiplying spectacles, 1650
1650
Computer-generated animated holographic stereogram
1990-1994
Light French spectacles with steel frame
1840-1859
Early bifocal lenses with rounded segments and oval lenses
1800-1825
French spectacles with shell front
1850-1869
Liquid Prism for angle of 59 1/2 º
1876
Liquid Prism for angle of 59 1/2 º
1876
Spherometer, 3-legged type
1875-1885
'Pair of telescopic spectacles made by Carl Zeiss
1925-1935
Ophthalmoscope, British, c. 1850. Two mirrors of different focus in vulcanite mount; extra lens holder at back
1845-1855
pocket camera obscura
1701-1800
Telescope by Utzschneider and Fraunhofer
1807-1838
Onyx black mirror
One pair of American spectacle frames
one pair of American spectacle frames
Iceland spar
1876
Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular
Ladies spectacles; perspex supra half rimless frame called "mischief"
"Milky" prism which produces Rayleigh scattering
silver-plated single-draw brass prospect glass with painted decorations showing classical figures
Combination microscope set
1715-1725
Binocular opera glasses with enamel and mother-of-pearl decoration
1865-1875
Telemeter in ivory and gilt brass
Plate cut from zircon uniaxial crystal
Plate cut from 1mm calcite uniaxial crystal
Wollaston-type optometer
1825-1835
Set of Zeiss bicurve ground
"Hydroclean" daily contact lens cleaner
Model of machine for grinding concave mirrors
tongs for demonstrating double refraction using heat
1885
10 glass cubes for demonstrating double refraction
1885
Claude Lorrain mirror
Machine-gun Dial-sight
Dial Sight, F.H.13, by Georg
Dial sight marked CT&S
Spectacles with round green lenses and light turnpin side-arms
1720-1820
Pair of spectacles with concave lenses
Small polariscope, by C.D. Ahrens
Contact lens
Five "frozen stress" models: (a) crane hook
Pair of military prismatic field glass binoculars
1917