The person who first invented eyeglasses is unknown but it is known that the Romans were the first to make such a discovery. They discovered how glasses helped them to read small text, ...

The truth is that nobody knows who invented eyeglasses. At some point in Italy, between 1268 and 1289, someone came up with the idea, but the actual inventor remains anonymous.

It was still a further 400 years before eyeglasses were invented. A man called Salvino D'Armate in Florence, Italy, is said to be the first person to have made eyeglasses.

For several hundred years after they were invented in 1296, glasses were reviled because they revealed a key weakness in the wearer's biology, says Neil Handley, curator of the British Optical ...

The person who first invented eyeglasses is unknown but it is known that the Romans were the first to make such a discovery. They discovered how glasses helped them to read small text, ...

When you think about inventions that have radically changed human existence, what comes to mind? Probably the wheel, the printing press, maybe the refrigerator and definitely personal computers ...