Contact lenses. The story
 Catalogue Number: 2457 Contact lenses. The story Category: Book Sub-Category: Book of historical note Author: BOWDEN Timothy J Year Of Publication/Manufacture: 2009 Time Period: 21st C Place Of Publication/Manufacture: Gravesend Kent UK Publisher/Manufacturer: Bower House Publication Description Of Item: Hardback, blue cloth covers, printed dust wrapper. 743 pages. Numerous black and white photographs in text. Historical Significance: This is detailed and comprehensive history of the development of contact lenses by Tim Bowden, a UK optometrist practising in Gravesend Kent UK. Bowden is a part time lecturer in contact lenses in the City and Islington College London, which provides an optical dispenser course. He is active in the development and curating of the contact lens collection in the museum of the College of Optometrists London. It includes many references to Australian contact lens pioneers including Don Ezekiel and Penhryn Thomas.There is a second copy in the Heweet Collection Cat No 1241 How Acquired: Purchased by Kett Museum Date Acquired: May 2009 Condition: Very good. Slight damage to dust wrapper Location: Nathan Library. Hewett collection |