[Panel Session] Cryptologic History panel Oct. 19, 2017

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Of general interest... history of spectacles (and I think we can assume lenses were invented before spectacles):

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Also, "reading stones" (basically a lens without a container):

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Apropos this thread, it may be that reading tubes existed between the time that reading lenses and spectacles were invented.