In 1888, German ophthalmologist Adolf Gaston Eugen Fick constructed and fitted the first successful contact lens. While working in Zürich, he described fabricating afocal scleral contact shells, which rested on the less sensitive rim of tissue around the cornea, and experimentally fitting them; initially on rabbits, then on himself, and lastly on a small group of volunteers. These lenses were made from heavy blown glass and were 18 -- 21 mm (0.71 -- 0.83 in) in diameter. Fick filled the empty space between cornea and glass with a dextrose solution. He published his work, "Contactbrille '', in the journal Archiv für Augenheilkunde in March 1888.
when did the first contact lenses come out
1888 1888