The Top Sunglasses

Did you know that sunglasses weren’t always used to protect our eyes from the sun. The history of sunglasses dates back to ancient China and Rome as early as the 12th century. Sunglasses did not undergo many changes until about the eighteenth century because of the work of James Ayscough. He experimented with tinted lenses in spectacles. Then, in 1936, sunglasses became polarized when Edwin H. Land began using his patented Polaroid filter when making sunglasses. For more on the history of sunglasses, click here.

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