| Ancient Eyeglasses or Spectacles and Other Ancient Optical Technology  Some history of this ancient optical technology is selected by clicking the images below: Did the ancients enjoy the first movie theaters? Was this ancient technology really available to them? Supposedly, the first movie theater, shown in this photograph, belonged to Thomas Edison, but the ancient Egyptians and Hebrews may have watched movies on the walls of dark chambers long before him, if we are to believe what Jonathan Gray and the Bible point out. . . . The history of old spectacles can be easily traced back to the thirteenth century, and the record of the use of eyeglasses can even be found in twelfth century; but their employment appears to date back much further. Below, we provide only a few of many pieces of the existing visual as well as old literary evidence that suggests that spectacles were probably used throughout the ages. . . . | |