When were glasses, or bifocals, invented? The first-ever wearable eyeglasses were invented back in the thirteenth century in Italy.

Imagine a world without glasses--many of us would walk around bumping into things and driving our cars up onto the sidewalk. So who invented glasses, and how were they first made?

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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. But this is not certain.

When were glasses, or bifocals, invented? The first-ever wearable eyeglasses were invented back in the thirteenth century in Italy.

Imagine a world without glasses--many of us would walk around bumping into things and driving our cars up onto the sidewalk. So who invented glasses, and how were they first made?