First made in 1887, they went bifocal in 1958
[DOC] [TLE] Milestones in Neuroscience Research [PAR] 1573 - Constanzo Varolio is first to cut brain starting at its base ... 1664 - Thomas 
Willis suggests that cerebrospinal fluid is produced by the choroid ... 1784 - 
Benjamin Franklin mentions bifocal eyeglasses in a letter to George Whatley .... 
1887 - Adolf Eugen Fick makes the first contact lens out of glass for vision 
correction [DOC] [TLE] A History of Contact Lenses | 1-800 CONTACTS [PAR] He even created a glass lens with a funnel on one side so that water could be ... 
Credit for the discovery usually goes to Dr. Fick, a Swiss physician who wrote a ... 
example of the lens was made by artificial eye-maker F. A. Mueller in 1887.