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  • The Spectacle Maker is a 1934 short film directed by John Farrow and starring Nora Cecil. It was Farrow's directorial debut. It was filmed in full three-strip...
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    The Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London, UK. The company was founded by a Royal Charter of Charles...
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    Zacharias Janssen (category Dutch scientific instrument makers)
    Zacharias Jansen or Sacharias Jansen; 1585 – pre-1632) was a Dutch spectacle-maker who lived most of his life in Middelburg. He is associated with the...
    15 KB (1,839 words) - 09:34, 12 April 2024
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    Hans Lipperhey (category Dutch scientific instrument makers)
    also known as Johann Lippershey or Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly associated with the invention of the telescope, because...
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    from the Netherlands in 1608. It is in a patent filed by Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey with the States General of the Netherlands on 2 October...
    74 KB (9,260 words) - 12:14, 9 September 2024
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    Johnson Spectacle Maker 1846 Sir George Carroll Spectacle Maker 1847 John Kinnersley Hooper Vintner 1848 Sir James Duke, 1st Baronet Spectacle Maker 1849...
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    Film Year Title Role Notes 1934 Handy Andy Lloyd Burmeister 1934 The Spectacle Maker The Duchess's Paramour Short subject Uncredited 1934 There's Always...
    34 KB (3,155 words) - 07:18, 24 August 2024
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    invention of the microscope and telescope is often credited to Middelburg spectacle-makers (including Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lipperhey) in the late 16th century...
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    the Pagans (1935), partly set in Tahiti, and directed a short, The Spectacle Maker (1934). He received a plum appointment to work on Tarzan Escapes (1936)...
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    Martens, or both, claims it was invented by their neighbor and rival spectacle maker, Hans Lippershey (who applied for the first telescope patent in 1608)...
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    with telescope. 1655: In an investigation by Willem Boreel, Dutch spectacle-maker Johannes Zachariassen claims his father, Zacharias Janssen, invented...
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    telescope, which is commonly credited to Hans Lippershey, a German-Dutch spectacle-maker, although Galileo played a large role in the development and creation...
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    Car. She played a princess in John Farrow's 21-minute MGM short The Spectacle Maker. It was Farrow's directorial debut and was filmed in full three-strip...
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    British Optical Association (category Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers)
    1962. In 1980, the BOA joined forces with the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers (WCSM) and the Scottish Association of Opticians (SAO, now disbanded)...
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  • 1965 to July 1966, and one original to the book. The 1934 film The Spectacle Maker, based on the 1913 Frank Harris story "The Magic Glasses", also features...
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    how to keep them on the bridge of the nose without falling. Spanish spectacle makers of the 17th century experimented with ribbons of silk that could be...
    28 KB (3,875 words) - 20:20, 20 August 2024
  • OPSM (Optical Prescription Spectacle Makers) is a retailer of eye glasses in Australia and New Zealand, with locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia...
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    of this logo appeared on the Colortone Musicals shorts, such as The Spectacle Maker, My Grandfather Clock and Star Night at the Cocoanut Grove (all 1934)...
    48 KB (6,430 words) - 05:45, 18 August 2024
  • Hans Martens, sometimes given the name Hans Jansen, father of Dutch spectacle-maker Zacharias Jansen Hans Jansen, a developer who submitted code related...
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    the first newspaper. 1608: Refracting telescopes first appear. Dutch spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey tries to obtain a patent on one, spreading word of...
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