American Optical History Table of
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In
Memory Of:
Recalling
those AO employees who have passed on
AO Recollections -
Rev 30-Mar-16
Events
/ timeline of AO's history
Laser Focus World Jeff Hecht obit on Will
HIcks
OHM/IEEE
Oct 26, 2012 Event in Southbridge to Honor AO Fiber
Optics/Eli Snitzer / Will
Hicks
AO's
1921 Article titled "The story in a pair of Spectacles"
(3.5 mb pdf
download)
How and why
AO First made spectacle lenses in mass in 1888
Dr
Estelle Glancy in her own words! - AO and Evolution of a
Lens Designer
AO
Main Plant Demolition ("DOD Project" /
Southbridge
Hotel
and Conference Center) Construction
Southbridge
Hotel and Conference Center - Former AO Main Plant
Clarifying
when
AO closed in Southbridge
The
AO Reunion of May 28, 2002
Interactive
Maps
of AO complex, Walking to
JFK's Glasses with AO Executive
lenses and the letter rec'd by AO on the Day of his
Assasination!
Tour and Optical Related sites in
Southbridge
AO's Lensometer - a ground breaking invention for Ophthalmic Optics
View
Historical Listings / Timelines in American Optical's History
AO's
Ophthalmic Lens Designers-
Dr. Tillyer, Dr.
Estelle Glancy and more!
AO History
Chronology Slideshow -
8mb Download of executable
AO's
Anti-reflection coating development / product historical
info
OHM info onf
U.S.Presidents and their Eyeglassews
http://www.opticalheritagemuseum.org/Industry/HistoricalPresEyeglasses.htm
AO Family Day photos from 1974
AO History as described in 1933 Document
Brochure from ~1960 titled "This is AO"
American Optical logos' through the year
AO
Management Photo by the Main Plant - ~late 1920's early
1930s
Donated by Jim Alden
AO's
first
National Sales Meeting - Dec 29-31st, 1968
(Held at
Southbridge High School)
Download Book
provided by Wade Cloyd
William
Beecher -
The
founder of AO in 1833
AO "The Descision is Yours" booklet against Unionization - Feb 1962
The "AO" Optical Heritage Museum
Optical
Heritage Museum slideshow
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advance slide
Don Whitney and Ophthalmic Optics
Dick Whitney and Ophthalmic Optics
Glass
Executive
Manufacturing prior to Southbridge Closure
Longest running
ophthalmic product line in AO's history
AO's
Permalite coating (1980)
Worlds first tintable, abrasion resistant coating
for plastic lenses
AO's
Photolite lens - Worlds first plastic photochromic lens
AO and Anti-Reflection Coatings
Premier
of Oklahoma in NYC was Oct 11, 1955
First Todd AO Film, process developed in Southbridge, MA
AO
Fiber Optics
Details of IEEE Oct 26th
Southbridge event honoring AO Fiber Optics / Dr. Elias Snitzer
AO
Scientific Instruments
Dr.
Bernie
Grolman 2002 Interview on his Non Contact Tonometer Invention
(provided by David Taylor)
AO Clock - Time set in 1916 synchronized by Radio
Dave LaMarre / Wes Reed Article on AO Sunglass History (1975)
Ear Protection Boston Herald article - April 1962
AO
Monoplex Plastic Eye Division info / 1949 Brochure
/recollections
Rev 15-Aug-12
1971 AO Product Directory Catalogue
Pope Pius XII and his gift - AO Glasses in early 1950s
A
look inside the AO Main Plant Clock Tower
AO
Flood's - 1938 and 1955 Destruction at Southbridge Facility
Download Audio Excerpt of WESO August 19, 1955 Broadcast taped by Robert Haynes
below
Ophthalmic Industry Heritage Info
Recollections
of Former AO Employees
Stories are welcome!
AO Reunion Group photo (Courtesty of Village Photo)
AO
1933 Jon Swanson Medallion
Courtesy or Jay \Galst
Don
Whitney
1958 Talk
on
AOLITE
(AO's CR-39 plastic lenses)
Family photo in front of the AO Main Plant in the Fall of 1954
AO
Wellsworth
Workers "Americanization" Education
- April 1926
Check out Mass Moments Look back at AO's 150th (June 18, 1983)
The
June 1983 AO Parade - celebrating 150 years!!
Photos of AO Employees in the 1920's ?
Snapshots in Time (Past Regional Newspaper Coverage describing AO)
Excerpts / Articles of Interest from the American Optical News
Quinebaug Valley Historical Society Text (G.Wells 1909 Speeches)
AO Life Publication (1930 Excerpts)
The AOCentenial Historical Publications (1933)
125th Anniversary Articles (1958)
150th
Anniversary Historical Notes (1983)
AO Stock certificate from 1869 -
Courtesy of the
Optical Heritage
Museum
Learn about
the underground Tunnel on the AO Complex
Photos of the Fall, Winter, and Spring at AO Southbridge (1999-2000 photos)
About
the Author (Dick Whitney) and his AO Background
My 39th year Anniversary
with AO/CZV on 9/16/13
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