Modern ophthalmic lenses and optical glass

Historical Significance: Obrig was President of OBRIG Laboratories NY. He was an early pioneer of contact lens practice. Obrig was not an optometrist but a technical innovator who made contact lenses and taught ophthalmologists, optometrists and opticians how to fit them. He was doing this in the late 1930s. The first Obrig all-plastic contact lens was produced in 1938. The Kett Museum has the first edition of this book published in 1936 (Cat # 225) as well as his book on contact lenses published in 1942 (Cat # 95), one of the earliest books in the modern history of contact lenses.