American Optical History
Photolite-
AO introduced the worlds first
photochromic plastic lens -1983
Printable
file
of above article by John Young - March 1983
Discolored (with age) - lens blank in 2004 after 21 years
Photolite-
AO introduced the worlds first
photochromic plastic lens -1983
Printable
file
of above article by John Young - March 1983
Discolored (with age) - lens blank in 2004 after 21 years
AO's Photochromic Research Scientist shown here in a 1967 AO News,
where this technology is mentioned - 14 years before Photolites
release!
The influence of CR-39 (sixty years after its introduction) - 2006 article by Dick Whitney
Feb 1975 - AOLITE History & technical orientation
Browse to Don Whitney Autobiography excerpt of AO