Health & Medicine
- Publisher: Popular Science
- Editor: Marina Galperina
- Published: May 28, 2024
From my Are We There Yet? column on Pop Sci
How the process of making prosthetic eyes has—and hasn’t—changed in nearly a century.
From tar, animal fat, and gold wires to painted polymethyl methacrylate, or Plexiglas, the nearly 5,000-year journey to perfect prosthetic eyes has been an odyssey through the periodic table. It has also been an art story...
The quest to craft the perfect artificial eye, through the ages
Many thanks to Marina Galperina, Popular Science Managing Editor.
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