Mesh goggles with cobalt blue lenses were used as early as the 1840's in the steel mills. The clear-lensed goggles were used by conductors on the transcontinental railroad.

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3 Top: Opthalmascope Bottom: Retanascope These instruments are turn of the century (1900's) and were used for examination of the eye.

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