| 单词 | optician |
| 例句 | A tension as high as that I had known when the white men had driven me from the job at the optician’s returned to live in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On taxi rides through the city, going to visit the various homes of his relatives, his father had pointed out the name elsewhere, on the awnings of confectioners, and stationers, and opticians. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “As the title suggests," Mr. Dunwoody said, seeing that the book'd caught my attention, “it’s about the history of opticians. What are you about?" Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Haupt had been an apprentice optician since dropping out of high school a few years ago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Mrs. Anderson’s own doctor ran his practice on Main Street, above the optician. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At the far end of the street, there were signs for various posh businesses: an optician, a doctor, a kitchenware boutique, a maker of ladies’ fine opera gloves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Students who need an exam bring home permission slips to their parents, and Vision to Learn returns to the school in a mobile clinic with an optometrist and optician on board. A mobile clinic is helping low-income students to see clearly — one pair of glasses at a time 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Fire reported At the optician’s office: It went up in frames. Style Invitational Week 1458: Do adjust your set 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z In this vein, the book retells a joke, about an Englishman at the opticians. Bloody Foreigners by Robert Winder, updated for our turbulent times 2013-06-10T07:01:11Z The groom’s mother is an optician at the Mountain Lakes, N.J., location of a private optometry practice of which the groom’s father, also an optician, is an owner. Evin Adolph, Richard Lyons III 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z As Wozencroft notes in his intro to 1–20, they were applied to everything from techno flyers and corporate logos to optician shop signage. The Fuse box 2012-06-13T00:00:00Z She is now working as an optician and training to become a psychotherapist herself. ‘My therapist gave me a pill’: can MDMA help cure trauma? 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Adi is the still centre of The Look of Silence, a quiet, determined, emotionally burdened man who works as an optician. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z Whoever his optician is works for the devil. D.C. optician says when it comes to glasses defining a look, seeing is believing 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Then came news that Alain Afflelou, the wealthy head of a chain of French opticians, was moving to London, ostensibly to expand his business and "absolutely not for tax reasons". Gérard Depardieu's tax move to Belgium divides France 2012-12-22T12:05:39Z I went to an optician, and was promptly sent to the Royal Free hospital. Experience: I went blind for a year 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z “I worked in a soap shop. I worked at an optician. … I was a very unsuccessful actor for a long time!” In austere times, the Met Gala returns to ‘Gilded’ era 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z The optician goes back to the school about two weeks later to deliver and size the students’ new glasses. A mobile clinic is helping low-income students to see clearly — one pair of glasses at a time 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z In a museum, they function somewhat like historic trade signs that would hang outside shops — a fish to indicate a fishmonger, scissors for a tailor, eyeglasses for an optician. Review | Warhol said he wanted to be ‘a machine.’ Two new shows prove he was anything but. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z “Derry Girls” gave Coughlan — who had been working at an optician’s office in her hometown, Galway, Ireland, only a year before she was cast — her first substantial role. The Secret Is Out on This ‘Bridgerton’ Star 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z It's a convenient place with, at the last count, 10 mobile telephone outlets, eight opticians, 15 cheap fashion stores and a lone independent Christian bookshop. Erik van Lieshout: enter the void 2011-01-10T21:59:00Z His father, an optician, is the owner of American Eyewear in Dallas and Peeper’s in Highland Park, Tex., both eyeglass stores. Shira Auerhahn, Eric Berk 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z There, he worked as an optician and embraced the accoutrements of mid-century suburban life, purchasing his first camera in order to document his newborn son. Ralph Eugene Meatyard’s Sweetly Southern-Gothic Family Album 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Satisfied, Ja’karri handed the test frames back to the optician, hopped off the chair and went back to camp. A mobile clinic is helping low-income students to see clearly — one pair of glasses at a time 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z At the time, Diz — a practicing optician before he lost his vision — was also overseeing seven optometry businesses. After 60 years, this R&B singer’s wife said it was time to retire. Then came his final show. 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z It is like that moment when an optician finally drops in the correct lens and you suddenly read the chart to the final line. ‘The Good Death,’ ‘When Breath Becomes Air’ and More 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z I haven't always been to the opticians as regularly as I should, despite being a devoted contact lens wearer since the age of 16. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z A control group of 59 people were instructed to do the same for neutral events such as being seen by an optician. Suppressing an Onrush of Toxic Thoughts Might Improve Your Mental Health 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z Her problem came to light when she went to her optician over the itchy eye. Woman's eye saved after itch turns out to be ulcer 2023-09-16T04:00:00Z OCT scans, which are widely used by opticians, are useful for monitoring eye health as they show layers of cells below the skin's surface. Parkinson's disease could be detected early with AI scans, scientists say 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z It gave an optician the means to set a fashion shoot on an alien planet and helped Denmark’s tourism bureau animate famous tourist sites. A Blessing and a Boogeyman: Advertisers Warily Embrace A.I. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Settling into the optician's chair, I still had no real concerns. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Salary rates vary based on location and role, so not all pharmacists and opticians will earn the average annual or hourly salary, Walmart spokesperson Nick DeMoss said. Walmart is raising wages for pharmacists, opticians in healthcare push 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z It said opticians could now “expect” to make an average hourly wage of more than $22.50. Walmart Raises Wages for Pharmacists and Opticians 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z They have started to look after themselves, started going to the dentist, optician, and GP, and significantly reduced their run-ins with police and paramedics. The hostel that gives wine or beer to alcoholics 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Chrissy Friberg, a traveling optician from Washington state, spent a couple days in Wales just before the attack, holding a clinic for the villagers. Rare attack in Alaska renews interest in polar bear patrols 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z But I noticed the optician kept returning to my right eye, shining in a bright light and looking inside with a strong magnifying lens. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The Welsh government has said it wants to reduce the number of referrals into hospital eye departments by one-third by training up community opticians to undertake certain procedures. Cost of Living: 'Wrong' to reduce glasses help for Wales' poorest 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z He was an optician for 18 years, until he lost his job during the pandemic. What’s the National Mall like at 4 a.m.? For work, they found out. 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z “Instinctively, I identify with the person who said that when he heard a politician talk of his vision, he recommended him to consult an optician!” David Trimble, peacemaker in Northern Ireland, dies at 77 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z He added, “Instinctively I identify with the person who said that when he heard a politician talk of his vision, he recommended him to consult an optician.” David Trimble, Peace Prize Winner in Ulster Strife, Dies at 77 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z The optician called the hospital and made an emergency appointment. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z The plan by Welsh ministers is for those patients that would have been seen in hospitals to have their follow up appointments in community opticians, therefore increasing capacity in hospital's eyecare departments. Cost of Living: 'Wrong' to reduce glasses help for Wales' poorest 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The crisis sparked dozens of local charitable efforts, and inspired Downey, then an optician and certified assistant in an ophthalmology office. A food pantry’s closure means more than lost meals for hundreds of families 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In 35 years as a Washington optician, Teunis fitted glasses for President Harry S. Truman and other high-ranking government officials. Buffy Cafritz’s Bethesda, Md., house is offered at $2.9 million 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Prof Stone said that while more opticians and ophthalmologists were becoming aware of the condition, sometimes it could take a while for a patient to meet one who does recognise it. 'Rare condition gives me TV static in my vision' 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z How fortunate it was that I went to the optician when I did and they were able to act so quickly. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Other groups representing opticians have also expressed concern about the Welsh government's proposals. Cost of Living: 'Wrong' to reduce glasses help for Wales' poorest 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Ian had to give up work at the opticians where he'd be in close contact with others and stay at home. Covid trapped me at home for more than seven months 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Local optician Michael McCourt said he had recognised a need for ear wax removal among his patients. Patients go private over ear wax removal waiting times 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z "If it wasn't for myself taking her to our local opticians, then we would have been none the wiser of how ill Mia was, as she didn't show any signs or symptoms," Alison said. Cancer: Mum diagnosed months after daughter 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z The Welsh government is now launching a campaign to encourage people to get an eye health check at their optician. BBC Wales presenter Lucy Owen's eyesight saved by routine test 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z An optometrist conducts the eye exam, and an optician helps pick out the glasses. D.C. schools partnership looks to provide glasses for students in need 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z In 2015, two years after his election, he ordered a new pair of eyeglasses from a Rome optician. Pope makes surprise visit to Rome record store, gets classical CD 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z There is a cost to going private - the treatment at private clinics or High Street opticians can cost between £65 and £80. Patients go private over ear wax removal waiting times 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “This will allow that hot air to escape instead of getting trapped between your face and the lenses of the glasses,” optician Shannen Knight told the publication. Mask making your glasses fog up in winter? These tips can help you see clearly 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Broberg recently visited an optician in Sweden who gave him a contact lens for his right eye. Swede Broberg shoots nervy final-round 72 to win Dutch Open 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z Vanessa said: "A couple of the opticians had a look at it, and the optometrist, and they decided to make a referral to the hospital." Eye test on Leicestershire girl, 11, led to brain tumour discovery 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Jobs most in demand included dispensing opticians, driving instructors and vehicle body builders and repairers, the report said. Care home staff shortage adding pressure on NHS 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Designer glasses frames worth tens of thousands of pounds have been stolen from a string of opticians across Scotland. Serial thief targets designer frames in opticians across Scotland 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Make sure to check with your optician to make sure soap won’t ruin your lenses, Cleveland Clinic suggests. Mask making your glasses fog up in winter? These tips can help you see clearly 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z His GP suggested an eye test, where an optician immediately spotted a problem and sent him to the Royal Derby Hospital. GCSE results 2021: Exams triumph for boy who spent year in hospital 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z If you’re going to an optician, who fills prescriptions from eye doctors but doesn’t do exams, masks should also be required there, and the store should limit the number of people allowed inside. How to safely get an eye exam and buy glasses during the pandemic 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z A few doors down at an eyeglass store, Tom Legato, 49, an optician, described a confusing and harrowing situation from the day before. A Heavily Armed Man at a Grocery Store Adds to Anxiety in Atlanta 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z It is understood at least six other opticians have had frames stolen by a man who matches the same description. Serial thief targets designer frames in opticians across Scotland 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Those paid more under the current model include dentists, pharmacists, opticians and independent contractors. Covid vaccinators highlight 'injustice' over pay 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Eyesight experts say people with persistent problems should visit an optician, which are open in lockdown. Covid-19: Five ways to avoid lockdown eye strain 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z The bride, the new Mrs Robertshaw, was at work on Wednesday at an opticians, but was allowed to leave early for the ceremony. Covid-19: 12-week vaccine gap defended, and a different New Year's Eve 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Mrs Robertshaw was at work on Wednesday at Prince and Bates opticians, but was allowed to leave early for the ceremony. Staffordshire couple rearrange wedding before tier 4 move 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Sarah Wallwork, practice manager at 20/20 Vision opticians on Easter Road, Edinburgh, had 21 pairs of frames worth about £4,500 stolen on 13 August. Serial thief targets designer frames in opticians across Scotland 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z However, it would be worth reconfirming the details with your optician in case they have made any changes to appointments which may affect you. Is the Covid vaccine safe for me? And other questions 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z "I'm an optician," boasts another window "get your eyes tested here!" I'm A Celebrity: First look behind the scenes of Gwrych Castle 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Dentists and opticians were only open for emergency appointments at the start of the last lockdown. Covid: Nine ways England's lockdown is different from last time 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z The opticians Specsavers recommends resting your glasses on top of your mask to help seal any gap, or using a piece of surgical tape to secure the frames to the bridge of your nose. A user's guide to wearing your face mask to the shops 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z "The footfall is very small without hairdressers, opticians, beauticians and those type of businesses back up and running." What will shopping in NI look like? 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z The 78-year-old contacted her local opticians and was examined at the store, before being referred to hospital. People scared to get help are 'going slowly blind' 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Other businesses including tattoo parlours, beauticians, dentists and opticians are now permitted to reopen. Danes rush for haircuts as lockdown eases 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z He’s handling the grocery shopping for an aunt recovering from COVID-19 and watching his mom, an optician, try to file for unemployment benefits. College seniors face job worries, family stress amid virus 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Beauty salons, dentist offices, opticians and day spas involve up-close-and-personal contact. Opinion | Our plan to reopen the economy relies on an incorrect assumption 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z Boots optician Carol Betts said five of her patients had cancelled on Saturday morning, which she put down to fears about close contact. Has virus fear struck shoppers and sports fans? 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z Jones bent down and shined his flashlight onto the spheres like an optician performing a checkup. They are the Nadal and Djokovic of their game, but that game is tiddlywinks 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The woman first went to an optician in June 2016 after noticing her sight worsening. Mum wins £3.2m after eye op delays left her blind 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Thibault, who does not want his surname revealed, was an optician before he fell 15m in an incident at a night club four years ago. Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z A woman was diagnosed with a brain tumour after an optician spotted abnormalities at an eye test. Woman's brain tumour discovered after eye test 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The idea is to partner with local opticians and enhance the value of the brick-and-mortar experience. Column: Could glasses possibly get more expensive? Yup. A pending deal makes it likely 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z "I thought nothing of it at the time. I was never told not to wear contact lenses in the shower, there's no warning on the packaging and my opticians never mentioned a risk." Man blinded by parasite after showering with contacts in 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z The use-by date of our reproductive systems is constantly shone in our eyes like an optician’s torch. How women anxious to have a baby are being exploited for profit | Eleanor Morgan 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z Lincolnshire Police said the crash involving a vehicle driven by a woman in her 80s happened "outside a branch of Specsavers opticians" in Boston. Two hurt in crash outside opticians 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z It is one of those gigs that is the hearing equivalent of an optician asking you read that pesky last line of tiny letters when you are having your eyes tested. Notes from the first Tory hustings 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z An optician sent him to hospital, where a consultant broke the news he would gradually grow blind due to a rare genetic condition called Usher syndrome. How a blind photographer sees the world 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z An optician double-checked my pupillary distance, the span in millimeters between the pupil of each eye, and tweaked both my orders for a better fit. Warby Parker proves you can sell quality glasses at more-affordable prices 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z If you’re like me, you’re probably reflecting at this moment on all the times an optometrist or optician said, “Those are totally you,” or words to that effect. How vision plans rig the eyewear market while keeping consumers in the dark 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z "The alpaca walked down the street, past my studio and stopped in front of the opticians' shop," the 58-year-old photographer said. Adorable Alpaca wanders into optician's office and has to be carried off by police 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z About two years later, Bishop was referred to MacLaren, who confirmed the optician’s diagnosis and identified the particular condition affecting Bishop as choroideremia, caused by a mutation in a gene called CHM. They said I'd go blind. Now gene therapy has changed that 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z I was a certified optician in Illinois and transported my skills to an Albuquerque optometry office that provided me with a stable income. Escape from New Mexico's 'war zone': my fight against addiction 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z In the U.S.—not a big player in making glasses—startup Skelmet Inc. of Boston offers custom-made sunglasses using digital facial scans that will soon be available in 10 opticians on the East Coast. Design Your Frames: 3-D Printing Comes to Eyewear 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z I spoke with more than a dozen optometrists and opticians. How vision plans rig the eyewear market while keeping consumers in the dark 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Men's and women's fashion shops were among the worst hit, while kitchen planning stores, opticians, shoe shops and banks also saw "notable" net closures. Number of shops closing 'accelerates' 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z This year, state questions include a citizen-initiated referendum to allow optometrists and opticians to operate in retail establishments. Crime victims’ rights, 4 more questions face Oklahoma voters 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Ms Allen, who works in marketing, said the test should be seen in a similar way to "going to the dentist or opticians". Millions of women miss out on smear tests 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Larger producers are eager for progress in part because their traditional business model involves mass-producing frames that they sell to opticians, often leaving as much as 40% of production unsold. Design Your Frames: 3-D Printing Comes to Eyewear 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z “Other places do that, but not us,” Andrea Diaz, an optician at Playa Vista’s Runway Optometry, said of pushing particular frames on customers. How vision plans rig the eyewear market while keeping consumers in the dark 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z A bus has ploughed into the front of an opticians in West Yorkshire. 'Tiger' bus crashes into opticians 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z State Question 793 would amend the Oklahoma Constitution to allow the practice and would also prohibit the Legislature from passing laws that discriminate against optometrists and opticians based on where they practice. Crime victims’ rights, 4 more questions face Oklahoma voters 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z After high school and four years in the Navy, Sanchez moved to Florida and worked as a stocker at Walmart before moving to the vision center and eventually becoming a licensed optician. Chuck E. Cheese robot helped man find his way 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The selected lenses and frames, made to order and delivered to the optician within 10 days, cost roughly 10% more than comparable glasses fitted traditionally but yield greater customers satisfaction, Hoya said. Design Your Frames: 3-D Printing Comes to Eyewear 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Heather Hutchens, from Waco, Texas, was initially dubious about the idea of living out of a truck cab for months when she left her job as an optician to join her husband, Jason, driving. Try This For a Long Road Trip: 6,000 Miles, an 18-Wheeler and Your Spouse 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Her sister took the bag to an optician for a closer look. 'We almost put £3,800 bag in the bin' 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z One part of the Peek system works in a similar way to an optician's eye chart, checking how well a person can see. The eye doctor who could not see the stars 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Visit a local optician, and ask for a colour vision test. Why millions of football fans see the World Cup like this 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Bevan, seen below in 1945, was the chief architect of the plan to bring together hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists under the umbrella of one organisation. The NHS at 70: A timeline in pictures 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z In the future, then, a visit to the opticians might also lead to a diagnosis about mental health. The eye's structure holds information about the health of the mind 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The prison hosts the only accredited prep course for optician certification in Pennsylvania, according to the American Board of Opticianry. At prison, eyeglass manufacture provides vision for success 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z His team came up with the idea of training teachers - turning the teacher into an optician. The eye doctor who could not see the stars 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z And that doesn’t sit well with Ozburn, an optician who lives in Texas. Victim’s brother thinks deputy could’ve stopped fatal wreck 2018-05-27T04:00:00Z In Britain, thousands of independent opticians rub alongside a few big retail chains such as Specsavers, Vision Express and Boots. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z What would the consequences be if there were no opticians or affordable glasses and you simply had to accept not being able to read? A pair of glasses to see a better future 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z A document that linked Cambridge Analytica to a small, seemingly inconsequential firm based above an optician’s shop in Victoria, Canada. AggregateIQ: the obscure Canadian tech firm and the Brexit data riddle 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z There are about 30,000 registered opticians in the UK and last year seven were struck off. Optician who claims to treat autism struck off 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Just like you, things seemed a little off for a while, so I dropped in to my local optician for a stonger perscription. Opinion | Am I Going Blind? 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z The first opticians had a tough time of it. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z It's the moment when you realise you need to do something about your sight, which might mean a trip to the opticians or buying a pair of reading glasses in the chemist's or supermarket. A pair of glasses to see a better future 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Nobody was hurt in the crash on Tuesday, the optician said. Specsavers driver lampooned after crash 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z The building also houses women’s health, diabetes, pulmonary, ophthalmology and optician services. Flooding damages computer data center at hospital 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Here, three businessmen with no knowledge of eye care bought the enterprise and hired an optician, Mac Malsin, Mr. Malsin’s grandfather, to run the show. A Glasses Menagerie 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z For a long time, opticians fought all forms of advertising, for example, which might force them to spell out their prices and allow customers to shop around. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z “Western Christians sometimes forget that the Holy Family came to Egypt for safety shortly after Christ’s birth,” said Fady Samy, an optician in suburban Cairo. Middle East Christians feel Christmas spirit 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said that with half of Europeans using glasses the EU must “carefully assess whether the proposed merger would lead to higher prices or reduced choices for opticians and ultimately consumers.” EU regulators probe Essilor, Luxottica merger plan 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z The marriage banns, posted on a bulletin board in the town hall, included those for an auto-body painter and a cashier, a zinc roofer and his stay-at-home fiancée, and an optician and a midwife. The Future of Europe Hinges on a Face-Off in France 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I purchased glasses last year from an optician in my neighborhood. A Glasses Menagerie 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Under Britain’s Opticians Act of 1958, the display of prices was banned altogether, which meant that opticians were more or less free to make them up on the spot. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Tesco is to sell its in-store optician business in the UK and Republic of Ireland to Vision Express, who will continue to run the eyeglass outlets. Tesco to offload opticians' business to Vision Express - BBC News 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z It leads to three discs which resemble the diagrams used by opticians for testing eyesight. Let there be neon light: Tate Britain unveils 'drawing in space' - BBC News 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But the leading chain of opticians, Specsavers, views the impending deal with caution. Why the merger of Essilor and Luxottica matters - BBC News 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Her optician told her to ask for a cancellation or to be assessed and treated at the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank. Nairn cataract patient's 12-month waiting time criticised at FMQs - BBC News 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z For the last half century, persuading opticians to prescribe Essilor, as opposed to Hoya or Zeiss, the company’s main rivals, has been painstaking, face-to-face work. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z There was similar excitement in September 2015 when he was spotted at his optician near the Spanish Steps in Rome’s historic centre. 'I'm incredibly proud of you': praise after pope pops out for new shoes 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z One optician has made it his mission to bring the service to the housebound in Huddersfield. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z “My father was an optician. And my brother was,” he says. Sculptor carves out his own unique place in the art world 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The optician himself told me that it was only when he felt the flesh and bone of the hands he seized grind into his, that the migrants became "names, not numbers - names." Compassion fatigue and the optician of Lampedusa - BBC News 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z For years, the company has brought opticians to Paris and its Essilor Academy, where they are wined and dined and taught about its latest products. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z He worked as a porter in a clothing store; next he worked for an optician; then he moved to a drugstore, sweeping the sidewalk. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z "Our usual optician said he didn't do home visits so we thought that was it," Allan says. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The six sunglass designs, branded Moncler Lunettes, will be available globally at the luxury brand’s boutiques, exclusive department and concept stores and select opticians. Luxury brand Moncler introduces its first eyewear collection 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z But the proposal resembles the way many consumers now buy eyeglasses: Get a prescription from an optician or ophthalmologist, then comparison-shop in stores or online for prices and styles. No Hearing Aid? Some Gizmos Offer Alternative to ‘Speak Up!’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Worrying about the fraying edge of motorway lights at night, or words that slide on the page, and occasionally spending a fortune at the opticians is, for many of us, enough to think about. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Yes, is the answer: your usual product is not replaced with a puff of air like the glaucoma-testing machine at the opticians. Does a vasectomy hurt? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Ben Wakeling 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "By chance I saw a poster for a local NHS mobile optician and thought it could be just the thing for Joyce." The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z A companion piece to Oppenheimer's Oscar-nominated, 2012 documentary "The Act of Killing," "The Look of Silence" follows an optician as he confronts the men who killed his brother during the 1960s Indonesian genocide. 'The Look of Silence,' 'The Jinx' among IDA Documentary Awards winners 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z A quick glance reveals a children’s optician, a children’s photographer, a handful of children’s clothing stores, and a nanny agency. Our mandatory breast-feeding fetish: Race, class, big business and the new politics of motherhood 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z By the early 1990s, Luxottica salesmen supplying opticians in the City of London were making so much money that they were using chauffeurs to get around. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z The day after his election in 2013, he returned to a Rome hotel to personally pay his bill and recently went to a Rome optician to pick up his own eyeglasses. Pope offers lesson in humility to flashy African leaders 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The poster was put up by Harj Sunda, who set up as a mobile optician after leaving Boots 10 years ago. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z When I did the optician took one look at the backs of my eyes and referred me to the nearest eye hospital for further investigation. 'I went blind and feel partly to blame' - BBC News 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z This time Oppenheimer focuses the story on an optician who confronts the men who killed his brother. Amy documentary nominated for Producers Guild of America award - BBC News 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z For the first 25 years, Luxottica stayed on the wholesale side of the industry – “behind the curtain”, as it is known – selling its glasses through opticians to the public. The spectacular power of Big Lens | The long read 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Taxes would also have been levied on ambulances, podiatrists, opticians, chiropractors and even nurses. Medicaid Expansion Is Proving to Be a Bad Bargain for States 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z "Many of my home clients havenʼt seen an opticians for five years by the time they contact me," he says. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Assuming it was a temporary result of the previous night's antics, I left it a couple of days before visiting an optician to get it checked. 'I went blind and feel partly to blame' - BBC News 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Trading standards officers said the law stated that lenses should be sold with an optician or medic present. Twilight-inspired contact lenses prompt warning - BBC News 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z In addition to lens power, getting the right glasses requires choosing a frame that is not too big or small for one’s face, and a few key measurements traditionally made by opticians. The Pros and Cons of Buying Glasses Online 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The store’s opticians even cook up their own designs for specific clients without them asking. Dollar vision: A tax break sends customers in search of new eyewear 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Those who can't visit an optician unaccompanied due to a physical or mental disability qualify for a free test at home. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Rousteing grew up in Bordeaux, in a comfortable but unglamorous home; his father directed the local port and his mother was an optician. The Instagram King of French Fashion 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z "I told the optician I hadn't been feeling well, headache, nauseous, and my eye was sore," he said. Optometry NI says 'half of all cases of sight loss avoidable' - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Patient fraud identified included wrongful claims for free prescriptions, dental and optician care. Fraud could be costing NHS in England £5.7bn a year, says report - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Village Eye Center hires experienced opticians who tend to command higher salaries than the mass-market competitors. Dollar vision: A tax break sends customers in search of new eyewear 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z However, not all opticians offer home visits, despite the financial incentive. The optician visiting the forgotten patients at home - BBC News 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z Clad in his usual white cassock and accompanied by his security detail, the pope swept into the optician's to have new lenses fit into his old eyeglass frames. Pope Francis, whose vision has captivated the world, brings it to North America 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z "Eventually we took him to the local opticians and he needed glasses. His sight was so poor, I felt extremely guilty." Optometry NI says 'half of all cases of sight loss avoidable' - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z This is not your average visit to the optician. Eye test to spot future sports stars - BBC News 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It’s the flexible spending account season again, and opticians are loving it. Dollar vision: A tax break sends customers in search of new eyewear 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Pope Francis drew crowds for an unusual reason on Thursday - after slipping out of the Vatican to visit an optician. Pope Francis pops out of Vatican to buy new glasses - BBC News 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But every facet of ordinary city life is here, too: a bank, a post office, several supermarkets, concrete arcades lined with hairdressers, fishmongers, opticians and clothes boutiques. Welcome to the naked city: sun, swingers and very little shoplifting 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z For many people visiting an optician is free including for those under 16, in full-time education, pregnant women, the over 60s and those with diabetes. Optometry NI says 'half of all cases of sight loss avoidable' - BBC News 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z "It's terrible that I can't be here for him," said Mrs Summers, a retired optician. Hereford couple married for 45 separated by visa row - BBC News 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Advertisement Advertisement Another early hurdle was that opticians and optometrists could not carve prescriptions into the EnChroma lenses, as they can with traditional lenses. EnChroma’s Accidental Spectacles Find Niche Among the Colorblind 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z A German tourist, Daniel Soehe, said he had failed to see Pope Francis in the Vatican earlier in the day, but then spotted him in the optician's shop. Pope Francis pops out of Vatican to buy new glasses - BBC News 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z The city's other hospital, Singleton, would be a centre of excellence for diagnostic and same-day care, working with GPs, opticians and dentists. £600m hospitals revamp plan unveiled for south-west Wales - BBC News 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Among them were women who work in finance and marketing, a pharmacist, an optician and a nutritionist. Muslim Frenchwomen Struggle With Discrimination as Bans on Veils Expand 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z A six-foot-tall, fifty-five-year-old optician from Ogden, Utah, Taylor threw his back out a year ago, while pulling weeds from his lawn. America’s Epidemic of Unnecessary Care 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z “She pokes her head in and wants to know what I did yesterday,” joked Mr. Fink, who is widowed and retired from careers as an optician and an industrial arts teacher. Two Generations, Retired and Together 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z But even if you accept that GPs are in the NHS, what about dentists, opticians and pharmacists? NHS privatisation: Why the fuss? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z A recent study by the Institute for Justice rightly ranks opticians in the top 10 of 102 low- and moderate-income occupations for most burdensome licensing requirements. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z During the reorganisation, all 151 primary care trusts - which provided services such as hospitals, dentists and opticians - and the 10 regional strategic health authorities were abolished. Radical NHS changes 'disastrous' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z If you want wire frames, look for titanium, which is strong, doesn’t corrode and is lightweight, says Avi Vizel, an optician and owner of optical shops in New York. Eyeglasses can be expensive; discounters and online merchants may be a good option 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z He went to a local optician and had a monocle made for himself. He had a hunch there was a market for monocles 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z There are other lobbies too: taxi-drivers, pharmacists, opticians, bakers, newspapers, legal clerks. French driving schools fight red tape 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Presumably, by making it harder for aspiring opticians to enter the profession, licensed opticians are able to restrict the supply of practitioners. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z My father put himself through college as a photographer, and when I was a kid, we had cameras, film, darkroom equipment and anything related to photography the way optician’s kids always have good eyeglasses. The Spirituality Of Less Stuff 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Mr Neil used a visit to an opticians in Glasgow to argue that a "Yes" vote for independence would protect the NHS from a "privatisation agenda". Brown and Darling in referendum call 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z All that was before I talked with Rob Takavoli, who is a licensed optician and a marketing guy at SportRX, which sells specialized glasses for all kinds of athletic activities. Golf problem solved: cool sunglasses for people who wear glasses: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z In the early 19th century, German optician Joseph Fraunhofer noticed that, in between the beautiful bands of colored light that emerged from a prism, several dark lines appeared. NASA will be keeping an eye on your garden this summer If consumers in Texas cared about the credentials of opticians, presumably more opticians would seek certification to enhance labor market prospects. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Last week it was revealed opticians were warning that overuse of smartphones may be increasing people's risk of eye damage. Gadget light causing sleep problems 2014-04-04T11:00:38Z For example a consultant doing private work on NHS time or procurement wise; an optician charging for glasses which the patient never received or needed. Fraud 'costing NHS £5bn a year' 2014-03-24T03:40:22Z A 'pocket optician' made from a modified smartphone is to be used by teachers in Kenya as part of trial to catch pupils' eye problems. 'Pocket optician' trialled in schools 2014-02-03T01:16:02Z Thomas, for example, who is now eight, is not classed as visually impaired or partially sighted because he can read an optician's eye chart. 'He can't see clearly to hug me' 2014-01-11T01:09:03Z Like barbers and massage therapists, a career as an optician may be a viable opportunity for low-income workers. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists and opticians were brought together under one organisation to provide services free to the public at the point of delivery. Why not... privatise the NHS? 2013-07-18T01:10:27Z After being evacuated, the team of doctors, dentists, pharmacists and opticians, all in their 50s, were led down the mountain by a Sherpa guide provided by the trekking company. Trekkers walk 52 miles to safety 2013-06-27T01:00:45Z She was born in Basel in 1922, had two brothers, and her father was an optician. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out--and Accidentally Discover LSD [Excerpt] 2013-05-17T13:15:00.210Z He spends another 20 hours doing the billing, administration, and collections for his wife, an optician, who runs a small business that they co-own. How to Fix the Unemployment Rate 2013-03-14T16:19:27Z To investigate this possibility further, we examined malpractice and vision insurance premiums in states with and without optician licensing. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Shoppers must use their vouchers within 28 days and are not allowed to spend them on fuel, lottery tickets, tobacco, infant formula, pharmacy products, gift cards, E–top–ups, stamps, opticians and travel money. Supermarkets deals: how the price promises match up 2013-03-11T11:35:10Z Responding to the BBC's FOI request, the hospital said the agency worker was hired to provide optician services and saw eight children between April and June. Hospital sex offender was checked 2013-01-01T16:56:48Z Brave Iestyn has suffered more than most children in the past 12 months after opticians found tumours behind both of his eyes. Club replaces boy's stolen gifts 2012-12-21T15:48:55Z Cole, who also admitted making a false statement to obtain a driving licence, had been told not to drive by his opticians because of his eyesight problems. Poor eyesight driver killed man 2012-11-23T10:30:56Z Presumably insurers would require a higher malpractice premium from opticians working in states without licensing if the quality of care being delivered was higher. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Projections for other workers, including radiation therapists, dispensing opticians, dental hygienists, medical transcriptionists and respiratory therapists, show smaller gaps. Hospital cuts add to oversupply of health-care workers 2012-11-19T04:08:04Z It also led to online jokes about pit boards replaced by opticians' eyesight tests. End in sight for F1's game of musical chairs? 2012-09-25T16:21:44Z The match programme cost one penny at the time and advertised pubs, printers and opticians, as well as explaining the offside rule. Swansea City celebrates 100 years 2012-09-07T06:05:07Z The popularity of non-prescription coloured contacts even became a national issue in 2008, when hundreds of cases of eye damage were reported to opticians, resulting in new government regulations. Japan harnesses fashion power of gals 2012-08-29T23:52:41Z We might also expect to see higher vision insurance premiums if consumers recognize higher quality vision care in states with optician licensing. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Martin O'Neill has baffled opticians the world over by continuing to see something no one else can. The Fiver 2012-07-02T15:00:08Z The clip-on eye-piece sits on a smartphone and acts in the same way as much more complex devices used by professional opticians. Speed of light pictures displayed 2012-06-28T20:11:09Z And opticians are already spending money on the first design phase of the E-ELT's complex mirror system. Monster Telescope Takes Another Step Forward 2012-06-11T23:08:35Z Six people, including a butcher and an optician, have been charged in connection with trafficking an Indian woman. Six charged over trafficked woman 2012-05-18T09:03:38Z In a new working paper published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, we estimate the effects of occupational licensing of the optician profession. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Washed emery is used by plate-glass workers, opticians, and others that require a greater degree of fineness than can be obtained by the sieve. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z Go to the wisest and best optician you know of and state your wants and your case plainly, and be assured you will be properly fitted. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Another English optician, Cassegrain, improved on this design somewhat by placing the secondary mirror inside the focus of the speculum, or nearer to it, so that the tube is shorter. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Although many opticians could not discover these creatures, the eyes of courtiers were more keen than theirs, and to gratify their royal master’s depravity, described them most minutely. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In the states that require optician licensing, requirements vary with little rhyme or reason. Occupational Licensing Is Short-Sighted, Hurts Low-Income Workers 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z “I got up thinking maybe it’s time for Newt to get out,” said Mr. Towns, 49, an optician. A More Subdued Gingrich Amid Calls to Quit Race 2012-03-08T22:51:50Z It has also been found by opticians and doctors that hardly anything will affect the eyes harmfully quicker than gum-chewing. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z To meet this difficulty Mr. Wolcott, an American optician, constructed a reflecting camera and brought it to London. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z The 15 men and women selected yesterday include a retail optician, an environmental engineer, two accountants, a kindergarten teacher, a chef, a land surveyor, a pawn broker and a retired hairdresser. Stanford Told ‘Lie After Lie’ to Investors, U.S. Prosecutor Says 2012-01-25T06:12:40Z As I passed an optician's shop, I happened to see, hanging in the window, several pairs of coloured spectacles, one of which I went in and bought, and walked on with a sense of reassurance. Love Among the Lions A Matrimonial Experience 2012-01-25T03:00:36.210Z At the end of the annealing process the glass issues in the shape of disks or slabs slightly larger than required by the optician in each case. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Timothy's only reply was to dash out of the tea-shop and into an optician's on the other side of the street. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The optician showed him a telescope by which he said stars at a great distance could be seen and particulars accurately defined. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z It must first be pointed out that there is a limit to the power of the ordinary microscope, beyond which the skill of the optician cannot go. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z “Your extra pair of glasses are at the optician’s,” she reminded him. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z It also affects those for physicians, nurses, opticians and beauticians, among others. Going After State-Tax Deadbeats 2011-10-15T02:24:02Z Was by profession an optician like Spinoza, but God vouchsafed to him greater spiritual sight than to the philosopher. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z After a time the optician left the institution, and was lost sight of for nearly three years. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z An apprentice of a Dutch optician, while playing with spectacle lenses, chanced to observe that if two of the lenses were placed in a certain position objects seen through them appeared much nearer. The Story of Great Inventions 2011-10-05T02:00:16.353Z All these are devices to correct faults in the microscope which our eye corrects for itself, and they have enabled opticians to make very powerful lenses. Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures A Sequel to The Fairyland of Science 2011-10-03T02:00:33.003Z Several businesspeople in Volos, including a veterinarian, an optician and a seamstress, accept the alternative currency in exchange for a discount on the price in euros. In Greece, Barter Networks Surge 2011-10-01T16:34:29Z The telescope was invented by a Dutch optician named Hans Lippershey about three hundred years ago. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z As we were viewing the statues of the Louvre, he exclaimed, "I see nothing but blocks of marble;" and he went off immediately to Chevalier's, the optician, to buy himself a lorgnette. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z For studying the markings on the fingers themselves, a small folding lens, sold at opticians’ shops under the name of a “linen tester,” is very convenient. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z The opticians sell special pieces of apparatus for this purpose, but though they are very useful, they do not render it less desirable to have the mirror mounted as described. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z At a little expense an optician will furnish you with strips of glass of complementary tints, which, when fastened together, give a very pleasing view of the sun without discoloring the disk. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z It's a similar story two doors down at Martin & Kaye's optician, which claims Tesco staff have been over to check out their prices. Tesco breathes new life into Toxteth 2011-07-12T15:14:00Z At the dénouement, his own come back to him from the optician’s. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z There is also a very clever optician in Sarepta, and there are several confectioners who travel to Moscow. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z These cells are obtained from the opticians, and cemented with varnish or marine glue to an ordinary glass slide. Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations 2011-08-01T02:00:12.067Z I have a field-glass which I found in a pawn-shop, that has no maker's name upon it, but in some respects is quite capable of bearing comparison with the work of the best advertised opticians. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z In that year the children of one Jean Lippershey, an optician of Middelburg, in Zealand, were playing with his lenses, and happened to hold one before the other to look at a distant clock. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z I have asked an optician in London how he fixed that zero, the boiling-point. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z My labors as an optician have used me up. The Automobile Girls at Newport Watching the Summer Parade 2011-06-01T02:00:25.733Z At the corner I ran against Mr. Clydesdale, the optician, who looks after the library which now occupies the old building. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Francois Xavier is an optician in Dakar, Senegal, where glasses cost a fraction of what they would in Western countries. Middle class Africa 2011-05-10T06:38:48Z Many people we've spoken to are simply confused between opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists. 'Catastrophe' eye tests warning 2011-03-19T10:41:57Z Some of the English opticians have shown that very portable, and really accurate barometers can be made in brass frames, and therefore the preference is now given to this latter material. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z From bakeries to opticians - estate agents to green grocers - Welsh surnames are certainly to the fore. Keep up with the Joneses in 'most Welsh town' 2011-03-01T07:28:33Z That caused plenty of trouble, because Murray-Wells started the discounted glasses site when he discovered what he claimed were significant markups by high street opticians. The tech startup stars 2011-02-06T00:07:06Z The General Optical Council says the lenses should only be sold under the supervision of an optometrist, dispensing optician or medical doctor. Contact lens sale 'may break law' 2011-01-31T06:46:03Z The masses of glass required are to be made in Paris, at Feil's glass works, and the object-glasses very likely by an English optician. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z "It's not that different from turning up at the dentist or optician," she says. Families' 'lifeline' 2011-01-28T00:42:57Z Was it Edinburgh where – ahem – some idiot student fell off a giant pair of spectacles jutting out from the wall of an optician's and fractured his wrist? Spreading the word only works if there is there is something to say 2011-01-25T11:02:17Z Entertainment products are not the only goods Cox ships from Jersey: he also dispatches home delivery orders for contact lenses on behalf of big-name chains including Alliance Boots' optician Dollond & Aitchison, again avoiding VAT. Offshore companies that holed HMV below the waterline 2011-01-19T18:12:55Z “Most opticians have such a meter and can do this very easily,” said Dr. Duffner. Patient Money: Let the Sunshine in, but Not the Harmful Rays 2011-01-14T18:18:14Z The comrades rushed into an optician's shop, bought an apparatus for making hydrogen, and filled the rubber with the gas. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z A dentist, an optometrist, an optician, a psychiatrist and a podiatrist visit several times a month. Federal program aims to keep seniors out of hospitals and nursing homes 2010-12-21T00:02:08Z The development of this instrument was studied by opticians for the remainder of the first half of the 19th century; the last improvement apparently was made by P.G. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z He was a veterinary assistant trained in animal husbandry; she was an optician. Helen Boehm, the Princess of Porcelain, Dies at 89 2010-11-20T08:36:00Z Looks like the sort of thing an optician might show you to see if you were colour blind. The Open 2010: A fashion editor's guide to John Daly's trousers 2010-07-16T21:00:00Z The writer, Keryce Davis, who was a sixth-grade student of Ms. Nielsen’s, is now 22 and works as an optician in Washington, after receiving an associate’s degree. On Facebook, Telling Teachers How Much They Meant 2010-07-14T02:21:00Z At least England were not hindered by indifference and Rooney, appearing merely from the bench, was sufficiently engaged to collect a booking after seeming to recommend a trip to the opticians for the referee. World Cup 2010: Capello's purpose served as England toil and trundle 2010-06-07T22:05:00Z Wayne Rooney may have appeared merely as a substitute, but he was still booked for indicating that the referee should consider an appointment with an optician. England 3-0 Platinum Stars 2010-06-07T16:19:00Z As a young woman, she became an optician. Helen Boehm, the Princess of Porcelain, Dies at 89 2010-11-20T08:36:00Z But the street is beginning to recover, with a butchers, bank and opticians among those now open. Flood fightback 2010-02-20T11:20:00Z "It is entirely possible that in the future a visit to a high-street optician to check on your eyesight will also be a check on the state of your brain." 2010-01-14T11:00:00Z Magnifying glasses, mounted in frames such as are for sale by opticians and others, for the detection of counterfeit money, are simple microscopes, and are useful in studying the coarser structure of plants and animals. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers The screen frames are supplied by all the leading opticians, but an intending purchaser would be well advised to see one erected before ordering. Optical Projection Part 1: Projection of Lantern Slides He observes, in the first place, that in speaking as above he did so "from the narrow but legitimate point of view of an optician." The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer A lens can be obtained of any optician. A Treatise on Etching This drawback, which besides was only momentary, was largely compensated for by the progress it caused in the optician's art. Underground Man "All America has got to do is to try to be an optician and look on the bright side of things, and she's bound to win out in the end." Worrying Won't Win Hendrik Rutgers walked for a few feet beside the modest artist who was proclaiming to a purblind world the merits of an optician's wares, and spoke again, politely: "I want to see you, on business." H. R. This perseverance had evolved the larger instrument from a small telescope, bought for a trifle from an optician at Bath. Her Season in Bath A Story of Bygone Days His reputation grew rapidly, and in 1761 he was appointed optician to the king. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" Professor, if you break your glasses, all you have to do to get a new pair is to take the pieces to an optician. The Time Mirror It is nothing else than a microscope, made by a very dexterous optician of my people, while he was in Leuwenhock's service. Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors Nathaniel, who had quite forgotten the optician, quickly paid him what he asked. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors To divide men into Europeans, opticians, tailors, blondes, brunettes, and dyspeptics is not to make a logical division. Logic, Inductive and Deductive This contrivance for showing the “future husband” is sometimes called the Magic Mirror, and may be procured at any optician’s for a dollar and a quarter. The Witches of New York Nathanael had completely forgotten the optician; he hastily paid the sum demanded. Weird Tales. Vol. I No fabric of human construction is fine enough to strain across the eyepiece of an important telescope, and opticians preserve a particular race of spiders, that their webs may be taken for that purpose. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. Frances laughed but didn't think of anything else to say, so the conversation dropped, and the optician fell to humming:— "The bridge is broke." The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge We must have no aberration, as opticians call it.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Our system secures you the services of Chicago's most skilled opticians at less than one-fourth the usual charge. The Mayflower, January, 1905 That his prowess as an optician should be invoked by Herr Leibnitz gave him a gratification which his fame as a philosopher could never evoke. Dreamers of the Ghetto As time has gone on, astronomers and opticians have invented new, and more perfect, and more luxurious instruments. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. A day or two after her visit to the optician's, Frances lay curled up on the broad window-sill, a thoughtful little pucker between her eyes. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge The speculum was carefully placed aside after its cleansing, and the pair of amateur opticians locked up the place after hanging up their aprons. The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam Plapper is an optician—wonder whether it is weak eyes, or wifely duty, that makes Mrs. P. wear blue spectacles? Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 Cheap, I call it; but the optician who owned them seemed to think they’d be safer if I had them than they would be in his shop. The Red Hand of Ulster Instrument is the word usually applied to tools used in scientific pursuits; as, we speak of a surgeon's or an optician's instruments. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The optician himself was quite in keeping with the house. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge Our first object is to see if the optician has given us a good glass. Pleasures of the telescope An Illustrated Guide for Amateur Astronomers and a Popular Description of the Chief Wonders of the Heavens for General Readers Stop; better ask address—or I might never be able to find my optician again—like Mrs. Barrett Browning and her lost Bower! Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, September 3, 1887 It does much good in modern times by improving the skill of opticians. Memorials of Old London Volume I In 1609 invented a telescope, after hearing of a Dutch optician's discovery. Pioneers of Science The house occupied by Mr. Clark the optician was old-fashioned and roomy; built in the days when ground was cheap and space need not be economized. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge These direct-view forms of the reflecting telescope were much in vogue about the middle of the eighteenth century, when many beautiful examples of Gregorians were made by the famous optician, James Short, of Edinburgh. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language For a long time opticians were unable to find a remedy. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use Galileo must be regarded as the inventor of this kind of telescope, which in one respect differed very materially from the one constructed by the Dutch optician. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Singularly enough it was not the same plan as the Dutch optician's, it was another mode of achieving the same end. Pioneers of Science She felt in love and charity with all men, and, finding the optician at leisure, she entered into conversation with him in her most gracious manner. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge Any reliable optician will supply you with the lenses. Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Fraunhofer was by profession, not a physicist, but a practical optician. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition It should be a rule, without any exception, to consult only a regular and competent oculist, and never an optician, for the selection of glasses. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) He wrote to opticians inquiring the price of a mirror suitable, but found there were none so large, and that even the smaller ones were beyond his means. Pioneers of Science When the supper was over and the healths of the bride and groom had been drank, "The Story of the Missing Bridge" was proposed, and the optician rose to respond. The Spectacle Man A Story of the Missing Bridge He at once decided to have a better instrument, and he wrote to a celebrated optician in London with the view of making a purchase. The Story of the Heavens The great Munich optician, whose work was completely original, rediscovered Melvill's deep yellow ray and measured its place in the colour-scale. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition To Hans Lippershey, a Dutch optician, is accorded the honour of having constructed the first astronomical telescope, which he made so early as the 2nd of October, 1608. Moon Lore In this year Joseph Jackson Lister, an English amateur optician, contributed to the Royal Society the famous paper detailing his recent experiments with the compound microscope. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) His telescope, however, seems to have been made on a different construction from that of the Dutch optician. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The opticians speedily availed themselves of the new instrument. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler Here the work of English instrumental artists was for the first time rivalled, and that of English opticians—when Fraunhofer entered the new establishment—far surpassed. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Singularly enough it was not the same plan as the Dutch optician's: it was another mode of achieving the same end. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 It is used for mounting microscopic objects in, and can be got from any optician’s. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 That afternoon I followed several; of these I selected three; one was an optician and electrician, an old-established firm, doing a large business. Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude If glasses are needed they are procured at the expense of the parent or donated by an optician who is interested in the school. The Making of a Trade School The next step was an even longer one, and it was again taken by a self-taught optician, Thomas Cooke, the son of a shoemaker at Allerthorpe, in the East Riding of Yorkshire. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The optician uses a motor to turn his grind stones, and its use in this case will average from 20 to 30 per cent. Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 These mounts, and slips of paper ready gummed, can be procured from any optician, and will save labor, especially in fixing up the edges. Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 From his father, optician and mathematical instrument maker to the King, carried off by the same complaint before his thirtieth year, he inherited an upright character and an industrious temperament. The Gods are Athirst Benjamin Martin, a London optician, made a dress of strong leather in 1778 which fitted his arms and legs as well as his trunk, and held half a hogshead of air. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters Having purchased the apparatus of a Quaker optician, he set about the manufacture of specula with a zeal which seemed to anticipate the wonders they were to disclose to him. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The optician looked suspiciously at me as I made these valuable purchases. The Diamond Lens It is almost unfair to the arts of the glass-blower or optician to describe them side by side with the humble trade of soldering. On Laboratory Arts A white steam breathed from the horses' noses, and the city folk would glance in passing at the thermometer at the opticians' doors. The Gods are Athirst Since the disuse of print, opticians have mostly gone to the poor-house. With The Eyes Shut 1898 It was long before the possibility of surpassing these masterpieces of German skill presented itself to any optician. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition "Our opticians already talk of having reached the limits of their art." The Blindman's World 1898 The average optician has probably added a little to what he was taught, but not much, and has doubtless forgotten or confused a good deal. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield These men of no account, who had destroyed Royalty and upset the old order of things, this Trubert, a penniless optician, this �variste Gamelin, an unknown dauber, could expect no mercy from their enemies. The Gods are Athirst The Paris Figaro reports a conversation between an optician and a customer of an inquiring mind: The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 The cheap varieties of glasses are often made from bits discarded by opticians, and never intended to be used again. Five Lectures on Blindness She told me that, being an optician in a small way as well, she had had a whole stock of spectacles and glasses. The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 He shouted for them, and looked everywhere; but there was not a trace of tailor, hatter, optician, swordmaker, upholsterer. Prince Ricardo of Pantouflia being the adventures of Prince Prigio's son And the first time I went in the flesh to the Bowery was to go with an elderly lady to an optician's shop. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches A near-sighted friend went to an optician the other day to change the glasses of his spectacles, which had become too weak. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 In all cases of this disease, therefore, an optician should be consulted, to see if there is any defect in the eyes. Papers on Health The houses here are chiefly inhabited by jewellers, opticians, and earthenware merchants. Holborn and Bloomsbury The Fascination of London If there is no expert optician near, apply for cards to your health board or school board; failing there, write to your state health and school boards. Civics and Health “You needn’t talk about cruelty!” he remarked, staring hard at the signboard of an optician opposite. Clayhanger Turning to the optician, he asked: "What is it, boss?" Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers This instrument, which is indispensable to every one who intends to make wine, can be obtained in nearly every large town, from the prominent opticians. The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines All lenses, however, should be tried by the opticians who sell them; and if they presented a specimen of their powers to a buyer, he could see in a moment what their capabilities were. Notes and Queries, Number 188, June 4, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The education of physician, oculist, and optician can be expedited by eye tests in school and by the follow-up work of schools in removing the prejudice of parents against glasses when needed. Civics and Health He's got to know the ropes at playing miner, bombarder, artilleryman, engineer, optician, accountant, caterer, undertaker, hygienist, carpenter, mason—I can't tell you what all. With Those Who Wait "That is an opthalmometer," replied the optician in his gravest manner. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Sure, I know," Morris agreed; "but what good is them short visits going to do him, because I ain't such an optician like you are, Abe. Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things Just as thousands of people have trouble with their glasses because they were fitted by an optician—"over the counter,"—instead of having an oculist prescribe for them. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured The justification for this feeling should be based not upon the commercial motive of the optician but upon his ignorance. Civics and Health The eyes are not well finished from an optician's point of view—but they serve admirably all the needs of the mole's life. The Human Side of Animals This Johannes became one of the first mathematicians and opticians of the age, and was sent to Rome by Bacon, who entrusted to him the works which he was sending to Pope Clement IV. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study But M. Dolland, an optician, reflecting that the very same difficulty must have presented itself to the Maker of the eye, determined to ascertain how he had obviated it. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity And then the optician fits the man according to the oculist's prescription. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured A physician uninformed as to eye troubles is just as unsafe as an optician determined to sell glasses. Civics and Health A special optical laboratory was erected at the Pasadena headquarters of the Mount Wilson Observatory, and here the long task of grinding, figuring, and testing the mirror was successfully carried out by the observatory opticians. The New Heavens We could stand a couple opticians in this concern. Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter The instrument is a very powerful one, and, like the smaller one we looked through before, was made by Fraunhofer, a famous optician at Munich. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 So must oculists and opticians, in most states. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured School tests will not have been used to their utmost possibilities until optician and physician alike take the ethical position that the first consideration is the patient's welfare, not their own profits. Civics and Health Only on passing before a thermometer in an optician's window he couldn't help taking a sight at it. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter "Well, Mawruss," he said resignedly, "a feller must expect the worst when he's got an optician for a partner." Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter If a telescope implies intelligence in the optician, does the eye imply none in its author? The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Now, an optician doesn't know much about eyes—he has made a special study of lenses—he merely fits glasses—just as a druggist merely fills prescriptions—neither pretends to diagnose or prescribe. Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Whether opticians and physicians are unprofessional or unethical may be told by reëxamination if the examiner is himself competent and ethical. Civics and Health For nine days he had waded through the wet streets, heavily leaping the raging gutters and stopping before the door of every optician to scrutinize the barometer. Visionaries The third and best was drawn with a telescope constructed by your famous optician, Alvan Clark, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 No 1, Nov 1877 The optician makes our spectacles; who made the eye of the eagle, by directing the slow transformations which at length produced it? The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Consult an oculist, not an optician, if there is anything the matter with them. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada Thus we have the optician, the painless tooth extractor, and quack cures for consumption. Civics and Health I., is complete in itself, and has been the entire optical education of many successful opticians. Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology The wildness of the theories hitherto proposed by him, on his own discoveries, seems to authorize us to consider his merit as that of a good optician only. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 When the answer arrives, the price that the optician demands proves to be much beyond the pecuniary resources of a mere organist. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men The former defect is not easily detected or remedied; nor is it commonly met with in the work of a careful optician. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. It must be made unethical and unprofessional for physician and optician alike to prescribe in the dark. Civics and Health Each book has an index, which enables the optician to refer instantly to the case of any particular patient. Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology We are assured by optical metaphysicians, or metaphysical opticians, that, in the operations of vision, we never get beyond the eye itself, or the representations that are depicted therein. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Though his name was well known to the initiated at the time, it never was mentioned until later years, he being always referred to previously as "the optician." The Life Story of an Old Rebel But the discovery 13that the dispersive powers of different glasses are not proportional to their reflective powers, supplied opticians with the means of remedying the defect. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. It must soon be recognized as unethical and unprofessional for an optician who is also a skilled physician to refer patients to a medical practitioner ignorant as to optical science. Civics and Health But modern opticians improved their microscopes, and microscopists greatly improved their methods. The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity I also tried to make a telescope by purchasing a lens of about 2 ft. focus at an optician's in Swansea, fixing it in a paper tube and using the eye-piece of a small opera-glass. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 The different gases give out lights of different hues, and the optician has exerted his skill so as to make the effect as beautiful as possible. Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky The first cause cannot be modified by the optician's skill, and is not important when the field of view is small. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. Upon an editorial in a daily paper on the relation of eyeglasses to headache and indigestion, an optician based a promise of immediate relief for these ailments if he himself were patronized. Civics and Health The brass nails and the binnacle are as perfectly in order as if they were costly instruments in an optician's window. If Only etc. Seek advice, but do not trust the eyes of yourself, much less those of your children, in the hands of the opticians who advertise their examinations free. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Then you go to a qualified optician, who makes a proper frame, and inserts the lenses prescribed. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment The best plan is to clean the surfaces with muriatic acid saturated with tin: this method is invariably adopted by watchmakers and opticians, who never use borax and resin. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Some way must be found by which departments of health will currently impose tests of methods and results upon physicians, opticians, pharmacists, manufacturers of medicine, and dentists. Civics and Health Spinoza was poor in means; yet inasmuch as what he earned by polishing glasses for the opticians was enough to supply his wants, he incurred no debts. Thrift Alexander de Spina, who died in 1313, had a pair of spectacles made for himself by an optician who had the secret of their invention. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 I know it is the custom with a great many if not the majority of opticians to fit a customer without knowing whether he has presbyopia, hypermetropia, or any of the other errors of refraction. Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 I wish some optician would make aluminum cards. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Fortunately, we can all learn the simple tests of environment and of living necessary to the selection of physicians, dentists, and opticians, or other "architects of health" whose efficiency and integrity are beyond question. Civics and Health All these taken together caused Helmholt to say that, if any optician sent him an instrument so defective, he would be justified in sending it back with the severest censure. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Persons, before submitting themselves into the hands of opticians, should know that they are not suffering from any incipient disease of their eyes. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 One is that the aberrations of the telescopes must be perfectly corrected, a very difficult matter of itself, and requiring the highest skill of the optician. Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 I once knew a man with lung trouble who inadvertently strayed into an oculist's and was looked over and sent away with an order on an optician. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen General Booth told me the story of a celebrated Danish doctor, an optician, who became attracted to the Army, and, giving up his practice and position, entered its service with his wife. Regeneration An able optician, named Nicol, cut a crystal of Iceland spar in two halves in a certain direction. Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 Think of a case of optic neuritis—inflammation of the optic nerve—going to an optician and fitting one set of glasses after another until the patient suddenly discovers that blindness is inevitable. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 Look at the retail shoe stores, the opticians, the cigar stores, the bakers, the meat markets, the confectioners, the restaurants of all grades! A Librarian's Open Shelf These two magnificent objectives and the two mirrors were constructed by the Brothers Henry, whose double reputation as astronomers and opticians is so universally established. Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 To discredit the optician's skill was not to get rid of the optician. Back to Methuselah The distortion is accomplished by the use of prisms, as follows: Secure from an optician or leaded-glass establishment, two glass prisms, slightly wider than the lens mount. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do An early morning customer in an optician's shop was a young woman with a determined air. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Not a ready-made pair, picked up casually at a shop, but a pair constructed by a skilled optician to remedy a particular defect of vision and to fit a particular face. The Mystery of 31 New Inn Orders were immediately sent to Mr. Adams to put a stop to the work, or he should no longer be optician to the king. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 330, September 6, 1828 My dear Cat, you are a perfect optician! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 328, August 23, 1828 So fascinated was the poor musician by the science, that he even thought of purchasing a telescope, but the price asked by the London optician was so alarming, that he determined to make one. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Between eight o'clock and midnight one optician in Jones'-Fall Street made his fortune by the sale of opera-glasses. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon He added to this the business of a general optician, his wife attending to the sale in the shop, while he himself attended to the workshop. Men of Invention and Industry The Count stopped again and entered a small optician's shop, with an inscription in the window announcing that repairs were neatly executed inside. The Woman in White As for Carol, she was an orphan; her only near relative was a vanilla-flavored sister married to an optician in St. Paul. Main Street I found a purchaser in Mr. Watkins, optician at Charing Cross, who supplied such apparatus to lecturers at Mechanics' Institutions. James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography Stopping a day at Annapolis, he visited the shop of a well-known optician and ordered seven powerful telescopes, one for every day in the week. Fantastic Fables The pernicious impost upon flint glass having at length been removed by the English Government, an opportunity was afforded to our native opticians to recover the supremacy which they had so long lost. Men of Invention and Industry Chromatic Aberration is another difficulty that opticians have to contend with in the manufacturing of lenses. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype After breakfast Carol bustled to a hair-dresser's, bought gloves and a blouse, and importantly met Kennicott in front of an optician's, in accordance with plans laid down, revised, and verified. Main Street By the way, I must hurry to the optician at once. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Suppose you are going to travel in Europe: you go to the optician, and you ask for a first-rate magnifying-glass, that you may scan the ocean, and view the remote corners of cathedrals. Robert Browning: How to Know Him He was not an optician, nor a mathematician, but a portrait painter. Men of Invention and Industry "They tell me," he said, "that you opticians make glasses now which are calculated to save the sight in old age." With Edged Tools Such machines on a small scale are still to be found in opticians' shops for the purpose of giving people shocks. Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 In addition to arms and provisions he carried a powerful binocular, the spoil of a wrecked optician's shop in Cincinnati. Darkness and Dawn It requires a clearness and accuracy of statement which might be compared to the work of an optician. Cambridge Sketches Shortly after he began business as an optician, he became dissatisfied with the method of hand-polishing, and made arrangements to polish the object-glasses by machinery worked by steam power. Men of Invention and Industry "Yes, sir," replied the optician, with wriggling white fingers. With Edged Tools I walked to the town and called at the shop of a jeweller and optician, with whom we conversed. With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia If an optician sent it to me as an instrument, I should send it back with reproaches for the carelessness of his work and demand the return of my money. A History of Freedom of Thought Long before I went to College I understood the action of the lenses of a telescope better than most opticians. Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy Hence, when a person about forty-five years of age complains of dim light, poor print, and tired eyes, the time has come to seek the advice of an optician. A Practical Physiology A microscope magnifying 400 diameters was a chef d'oeuvre of the opticians of that day; and, at the same time, by no means trustworthy. Discourses Biological and Geological Essays These may be obtained from any good optician. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Among opticians and astronomers," he writes to Lina, "nothing now is talked of but what they call my great discoveries. Biographies of Working Men When these wonderful glasses were tested, they were found to represent one of the mildest corrections made by opticians; in fact, her eyes were above the average. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness The selection and proper fitting of glasses call for the combined skill of both the physician and the optician. A Practical Physiology They went to the optician's the next morning. Dawn This is a fact recognized not only by opticians but by the world. Concerning the Spiritual in Art He has heard it said that the chance arrangement of two pairs of spectacles, in the shop of a Dutch optician, gave the direction 67 for constructing the first telescope. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism An optician, who was a friend of hers, in the course of a recent conversation had mentioned an invention, a model of which he had made for the inventor. Constance Dunlap Several new opticians' shops are set up on the strength of the purchases in this line she is necessitated to make. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 The corn-dealers shop was closed, as on a Sunday; the optician and his blind wife had locked up their rooms and were spending Easter-tide, it might be hoped, amid more cheerful surroundings. Eve's Ransom This individual exhibited all the outward characteristics of eminent respectability, and seemed to take a remarkable interest in the contents of an optician's shop window. Monsieur Lecoq Possibly, in time, say a few geological ages, it might in some optician's shop have brought about a combination of flint and crown glass which, together, should have been achromatic. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism The tool of the optician is a very simple affair, being nothing more than a plate of iron somewhat larger, perhaps a fourth, than the lens to be ground to the corresponding curvature. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science If all women followed your example it would impoverish the opticians. The Rosary This remark was like the drawing of a weir-hatch and she was speedily inundated with all she wished to know concerning astronomical opticians. Two on a Tower And this leads me to my first observation, namely, that a majority of those who pass my mirror have weak eyes, and have already invoked the aid of the optician. The Twins of Table Mountain But the space between the humors of the eye is not an optician' s shop where object-glasses of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, are placed by chance, in all manner of relations and positions. Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism The glass is then ready for the optician. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science It spreads the sensitive film on the artificial retina which looks upon us through the optician's lens for a few seconds, and fixes an image that will outlive its original. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 When he was gone she wrote to the firm of opticians concerning the equatorial for whose reception all this was designed. Two on a Tower Buffon translated Newton's theory of flux, and the Vegetable Statics of Hales; he is in turn a metallurgist, optician, geographer, geologist and, last of all, an anatomist. The Ancient Regime I think it is Professor Piazzi Smith who tells us how grateful he was to find a large telescope he had ordered finished by the opticians on the very day they had promised it. Great Astronomers The first process to be performed by the optician is to grind the glass into the shape of a lens with perfectly spherical surfaces. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science It was for the optician to take the next step. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 ‘I will write to these opticians at once.’ Two on a Tower "I left him in the optician's, sir," the clerk answered. Havoc Lord Rosse was, in fact, a skilful mechanic, an experienced founder, and an ingenious optician. Great Astronomers It may be remarked that this last adjustment is the proper work of the optician, since it is so difficult that the user of the telescope cannot ordinarily effect it. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science In the attempt to overcome those difficulties, the foremost physical philosophers of the time came to the aid of the best opticians. A History of Science — Volume 4 The Distance of the Stars Just about this time, however, a great optician came to the aid of the astronomers. A History of Science — Volume 3 It is admitted, however, that the chief honors belong to the opticians of the Netherlands. A History of Science — Volume 2 Iris—"Could you learn to love an optician?" Perfect Behavior; a guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises But it would be a wonderful success if his home-made telescope was equal to the most indifferent one which can be bought at an optician's. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science Many opticians, indeed, quite despaired of ever being able to make a satisfactory refracting compound microscope, and some of them had taken up anew Sir Isaac Newton's suggestion in reference to a reflecting microscope. A History of Science — Volume 4 The correctness of the inference was shown twenty years later, when Alvan Clark, Jr., the American optician, while testing a new lens, discovered the companion of Sirius, which proved thus to be faintly luminous. A History of Science — Volume 3 How is your ship to be steered by a Pilot with no eyes but a pair of glass ones got from the constitutional optician? Latter-Day Pamphlets The test applied by the optician is much more exact, and also more easy. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science The very best optician will always find that on a first trial his glass is not perfect. Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science The man to whom chief credit is due for directing those final steps that made the compound microscope a practical implement instead of a scientific toy was the English amateur optician Joseph Jackson Lister. A History of Science — Volume 4 |
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