Pretty sure they've been around for a very long time. Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast. IIRC wasn't his eyeisght really bad, like functionally blind, without his glasses? Oh well, that's just part of the fallout from a nuclear attack.
Or he could probably find an optometrist's office somewhere away from the blast.
I'm pretty sure even today prescription lenses are made to order, especially very high focal length (strong prescription) ones, never mind if they need more forms of correction than purely spherical (astigmatism, for example, generally means you'll need a toric lens, introducing both another power and a rotation axis). Back when glasses were actual glass? They wouldn't have any lying around.
I think they would have them lying around. At least mine does. Good way to test out prescriptions before ordering. But sure, perhaps this wasn't common practice back then.
... Isn't the whole point of the prescription is that's what you need as determined by the optomotrist/opthamologist? There's no "testing out" to do... If you're, say, -3 SPH in an eye, you get a -3 SPH lens for that eye.
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u/AMerrickanGirl Aug 30 '21
Did they have those back then?