The humble pair of glasses might just be one the world’s greatest inventions and yet how much do many of us even really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses? Historian Travis Elborough traces the fascinating true story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids to monkish scribes right through to today’s designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass.
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