Reducing Stress: Liquid Lenses

Series

Series Name

Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

180

Date Released

1976

Length of issue (in feet)

519

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Reducing Stress: Non-Drip Tap
2. 2Reducing Stress: Back-Seat Pilot
3. 3Reducing Stress: Lorry Loader
4. 4Reducing Stress: Liquid Lenses

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

COI synopsis: Stress can be an insidious destructive force on man and on machine. Alleviating it can prevent accidents, or help to preserve equipment - or even tempers! Ordinary contact lenses stress the eyes if left in too long because they prevent oxygen reaching the tissues. A new lens is three-quarters liquid and allows oxygen to pass through as though it wasn’t there. It can stay in the eye without stress for months at a time - and even gets rid of the stress of constantly having to remove the lenses from the eyes.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Science and technology; Inventions and discoveries

COI Reference

MI 1458/180

Credits:

Sponsor

Central Office of Information (COI)

Sponsor

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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