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TIME reported the American Academy of Optometry's $1,000 award to Dr. William Feinbloom, optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, for his telescopic spectacles with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses which in some cases enabled 98%-blind patients to see well enough to work. Zeiss telescopic spectacles, not new, have been shown helpful in about 3% of clinical cases. Dr. Feinbloom's development is new, still of debated importance. The Journal of the American Medical Association last fortnight advised "strenuous protests" against Dr. Feinbloom's "socalled improvement." The American Foundation for the Blind...
...March of Time" dramatized one successful case of Dr. Feinbloom's. If the dramatization gave any blind listener false hope, TIME regrets. But also, if one sufferer has benefited from the Feinbloom development TIME rejoices. TIME counsels those interested in Dr. Feinbloom's spectacles to consult their eye specialists...
...Feinbloom, chief optometrist of Manhattan's West Side Hospital, applied himself to the problem of making a pair of spectacles which would magnify things, yet keep them at their distance...
Telescopic spectacles with triple cylindrical (instead of spherical) lenses in each eyepiece answered Dr. Feinbloom's problem. By trial & error he found best results by enlarging images vertically 1.3 times the natural, horizontally 1.8 times the natural. Objects seem wider than in reality. Ordinary men seem corpulent. As soon as purblind users of the Feinbloom spectacles become used to widened vision they can do ordinary work. Wearers are now operating stores, working in factories. Some are doctors...
Delighted with Dr. Feinbloom's invention and his permitting any eye specialist to make the device without royalties, the American Academy of Optometry gave him $1,000. He will use the money to give free spectacles to poor patients...