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...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6824563 | Binocular lens systems An binocular lens system for improving the vision of a patient including first and second ophthalmic lenses. Each of these lenses is adapted for implantation in an eye or to be disposed on or in the cornea. The first lens has a first baseline diopter power for dista... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6482229 | Anterior chamber intraocular lens having fixation members attached to the cornea and methods of implantation An intraocular lens configured to be implanted in the cornea from the posterior aspect. The lens has an optic and a pair fixation members extending outward therefrom. One of the fixation members includes a single enlarged foot, while the other fixation me... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6475240 | Anterior chamber intraocular lens and methods for reducing pupil ovalling An intraocular lens having an optic and a plurality of fixation members coupled to the optic. The fixation members are adapted to be evenly circumferentially distributed about the anterior chamber to reduce the phenomenon of malshaping the iris, for examp... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6228115 | Intraocular lenses with improved axial stability A refractive intraocular lens including an optic portion having an outer peripheral edge and three or four balanced haptic elements. Each haptic element is formed to have an inner portion and outer tip for supporting the optic portion in a patient's eye. ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 4657547 | Intraocular lens An intraocular lens comprising a lens body provided with a supporting haptic part formed by at least two filiform elements fixed to the lens and appropriately oriented, each of said filiform elements presenting a length suitable to be laid in a surgically... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4629460 | Intraocular lens Three radially inwardly curved haptics extend outwardly from equi-distant locations about the periphery of a plano-convex optic. A flat, rounded pod is attached to the distal end of each haptic on the radially outward side thereof.... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4575878 | Intraocular lenses An intraocular lens for implant in the eye, particularly in the anterior chamber, includes a lens body and at least three flexible, resilient, fixation filaments extending from the periphery of the lens body and having curved intermediate and distal porti... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4527294 | Intraocular lens construction An intraocular lens includes a lens body and a plurality of flexible haptics angularly spaced around the periphery of the lens body. The normally extended haptics are capable of being compressed towards the lens body and detachably held thereon, so that t... | 07/09/1985 |
