There are certain things in this world that I am uber grateful for, among them are contact lenses, air conditioning and birth control. But let's focus on the history of contact lenses today.
The idea has been around since the Renaissance. Scholars attribute Leonardo da Vinci's Codex of the Eye as the first model for a contact lens. However, a lens that would fit comfortably in a person's eye wasn't possible until the advent of squishy plastics.
Czech chemist, Otto Wichterle, is the father of modern contact lenses. He produced the first hydrogel lenses in 1961, and the US FDA approved them for general use in 1971.
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