Rush-Hour Reading Glasses (Apr, 1960)
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1960
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Source: Popular Mechanics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Apr, 1960
Buy on Ebay
Rush-Hour Reading Glasses
Rush-hour crowds packed John Holding into the London subway too tightly to read his paper. In desperation, he bought a pair of right-angle-vision glasses, the type used for reading in bed by invalids who can’t sit up, and reversed the prisms so the glasses viewed straight upwards. Now he rides and reads in the densest crowds.
Those glasses are also excellent for early spotting of dangerous meteorites.
Comment by Rick Auricchio — December 27, 2007 @ 9:38 pm
Of course he has reverse it with Photoshop to print out each page the paper so it doesn’t read backwards.
(Iron lung readers used a pair of mirrors to read books)
Comment by Stannous — December 28, 2007 @ 2:08 am
I think those are prisms, not mirrors, so the image ought to be the right way around.
Comment by Orv — December 28, 2007 @ 11:25 am
Glasses for Ninjaphobes.
Comment by jayessell — December 28, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
Speaking of ninjas, many Japanese commuters read manga on the train…
Comment by nlpnt — December 30, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
makes me proud to be British. Of course, on the Tube no-one would ever dream of making a comment, despite the fact the man is clearly a nutter.
I wish i had a pair of those. I’d love to be able to read flat in bed without craning my neck.
Comment by Oliver — March 30, 2008 @ 5:11 pm