Salvino D'Armate is most often credited with the invention of the first wearable eye glasses around 1284. The earliest glasses was prescribed for hyperopia and perched on the bridge of nose.Sunglasses as we know them today was invented in 1929 by Sam Foster.
Outer Solar System. The planet Jupiter has the shortest day of all the eight major planets in the Solar System. It spins around on its axis once every 9 hr 55 min 29.69 sec. Jupiter has a small axial tilt of only 3.13 degrees, meaning it has little seasonal variation during its 11.86-year-long orbit of the Sun.
CBC News Posted: Dec 20, 2011 3:11 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 19, 2013 1:13 PM ET. From Stonehenge in England to the Kokino observatory in Macedonia, people gather every year to mark the winter solstice. Dec. 21 is the shortest day of the year, in terms of daylight hours, in the Northern Hemisphere. At 12:11 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, the hemisphere begins its tilt back toward the sun, marking the winter solstice in this part of the world and slowly leading to longer days.