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May 23, 1785, Benjamin Franklin reveals his design for what would later be called bifocal glasses. The Pennsylvania inventor, printer, author, diplomat and American Founding Father had grown tired of alternating between two different pairs of glasses to help his near or far vision. So, he came up with an idea to, quite literally, split the difference. Franklin is widely credited as the inventor of bifocals.

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So... Ben was in his late 70's when he did this. Don't know if a bit later he made trifocals - probably.

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1 minute ago, ri702bill said:

So... Ben was in his late 70's when he did this. Don't know if a bit later he made trifocals - probably.

Nah, he probably just went straight to “progressives”.