• The American Optical Company, also known as AO Eyewear, is a luxury American eyewear and sunglass company based in Vernon Hills, Illinois near Chicago...
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    The American Optical Company Historic District encompasses a historic industrial complex on the Quinebaug River in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Located...
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    The Twinehurst American Optical Company Neighborhood is a residential historic district in Southbridge, Massachusetts. It consists of seven three family...
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  • AO Eyewear, Inc". aoeyewear.com. Retrieved 2016-04-13. "American Optical Manufacturing Company of Southbridge, Massachusetts". antiquespectacles.com. Retrieved...
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  • Unertl Optical Company, Inc. was a manufacturer of telescopic sights in the United States from 1928 until 2008. They are known for their 10× fixed-power...
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  • Zenni Optical (formerly 19dollareyeglasses.com) is an American online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses. Founded in 2003 by Tibor Laczay...
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    Todd-AO (category Mass media companies established in 1953)
    brothers, owners of United Artists Theaters in partnership with the American Optical Company in the mid-1950s. Todd-AO had been founded to promote and distribute...
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    branch in New York that was to become the C. P. Goerz American Optical Company in 1905. This company continued to operate independently in the USA until...
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    Pentax first film camera in over two decades. The original company was founded as Asahi Optical Co Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha in November 1919 by Kumao Kajiwara...
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    ELCAN Optical Technologies, also simply ELCAN (Ernst Leitz CANada), is a Canadian optics and electronics manufacturing company owned by American defense...
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  • Merrowitz Ltd, a branch of a well-known American optical company. In 1915, during the First World War, the company name was changed to Rayner & Keeler Ltd...
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    Mike Todd (category 20th-century American businesspeople)
    flaws. The result was the Todd-AO process, designed by the American Optical Company. The process was first used commercially for the successful film adaptation...
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    materials. The company produced the first optical-quality glass in America during the early to mid-1900s. By the year 1903 the company began manufacturing...
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    Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. is an international company headquartered in Kibbutz Shamir, Israel that develops and manufactures optical lenses for eyeglasses...
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  • Target Optical is an optical company in United States. It operates optical stores inside Target stores in United States. Target Optical was founded by...
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    the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Under the Wells family, the American Optical Company ("AO") became the world's largest manufacturer of ophthalmic products...
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  • Dungeons & Dragons universe Annoying Orange, an American comedy web series AO (originally American Optical Company) eyeglass lenses, a brand now merged with...
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    2005, the eyeglass division merged with U.S. company SOLA, which included the former American Optical Company. On 28 June 2013, Carl Zeiss officially announced...
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    An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
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  • Transitions Optical is a U.S.-based company known for manufacturing photochromic lenses. The company was founded in 1990. In 1991, Transitions Optical became...
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    fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a single...
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  • and Filmography of Wide Gauge Filmmaking. Mc Farland & Company, 1988. Hart, Martin. American Widescreen Museum, 1996–2008. Retrieved on 2008-05-16. Herbert...
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    Wells, wife of George Wells, founder of the locally prominent American Optical Company. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places...
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  • Polaroid Eyewear (category Design companies established in 1937)
    company initially produced Polaroid Day Glasses, the first sunglasses with a polarizing filter. In 1935 Land negotiated with American Optical Company...
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    he wanted "Cinerama out of one hole". In collaboration with the American Optical Company, Todd developed a system which was to be called "Todd-AO". This...
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    any significant way changes in what businesses are carrying." American Optical Company, a luxury eyewear designer and manufacturer CDW, a provider of...
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    shop in Southbridge, Massachusetts, in the 1840s which became the American Optical Company. His sons Channing, Albert (called "AB"), and Cheney followed him...
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  • Randolph Engineering (category American companies established in 1973)
    tool and die maker. He later found employment at the American Optical Company and then Marine Optical. Convinced that he could design and manufacture better...
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  • and marketed first by C. Baker, London, and subsequently by the American Optical Company in the US. The double-image problem commonly encountered with all...
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    chart, in use circa 1850 - 1950 A hemoglobinometer made by the American Optical Company. The light of a battery-driven lamp is travelling on two paths...
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