2007-03-12 14:29:57 · 6 answers · asked by Lana C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I'm not sure who was first, but the links below have some interesting information.
2007-03-12 14:34:16 · answer #1 · answered by Curious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahhaaa, great stuff.
I'm going to be one of the pretentious people who answers this seriously.. here I go..
Well, firstly.. it's not clear what you mean by 'glasses'. You could mean in the sense of cups or tumblers made of glass for drink or spectacles that you wear to aid vision.
As I read not so long ago as I happened to be browsing google on this matter, glasses in the first sense above were invented by a man called Man Glassable.. he thought.. 'hell, I just plain don't like drinking out of metal cups' so he hired a horse to go to a guy to ask him to make a glass. The guy was called Glass Blower. Cool guy.
The guy who invented spectacles, Spectacle Spectalius noticed that when he tried to hunt for dinosaur food he could see them far away.. but when they approached to prey on him, he had trouble focusing on their exact whereabouts. After many deaths, Spectalius found some wire and some random glass that a horse gave him and stuck them all together and decided that he died less with them on. So yeah. That helped him see and whatnot.
I'm tired.. this answer could have been so much cooler.
Anyway.. all that ramble completely answers your question.
2007-03-12 14:39:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roger Bacon, fleeing before Papal wrath and passing on his invention of spectacles to a friend, from whom it was that da Spina heard of glasses.
Alexander da Spina, died in 1313, a Dominican monk, is generally accepted as the re-inventor of glasses, the original inventor is lost to history.
It was somewhere towards the 13th century that glasses came to be introduced.
Glasses began to have a vogue towards the middle of the 14th century; and painters and sculptors could not resist the temptation to endow biblical figures with these accessories.
2007-03-12 14:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by Hamish 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I heard that Ben Franklin invented glasses...you did mean eye glasses didn't you?
2007-03-12 14:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by werbmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean drinking glasses the word is: duh. If you mean eye glasses; they were invented because people were having trouble seeing clearly.
2007-03-12 14:33:58 · answer #5 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you not have glasses ................................
DUH!!! thay help some people see more clearly
2007-03-12 14:33:59 · answer #6 · answered by britegreen 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋