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Leonardo da Vinci illustrated the concept of a "contact" lens in 1508. Fitted glass contact lenses were developed in the late 1800s and evolved to hard plastic lenses in the 1950s. The first soft plastic contact lenses were introduced to the masses in 1971 by Bausch and Lomb. The first disposable contact lenses were introduced in 1991.
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