Optician more important and dignified. Far-sighted or aging colonial Americans imported spectacles from Europe. Spectacles were primarily for the affluent and literate colonists, who required a valuable and precious appliance. Benjamin Franklin in the 1780s developed the bifocal. Bifocal lenses advanced little in the first half of the 19th century. The terms bifocal and trifocal were introduced in London by John Isaac Hawkins, whose trifocals were patented in 1827. In 1884 B. M. Hanna was granted patents on two forms of bifocals which become commercially standardized as the "cemented" and "perfection" bifocals. Both had the serious faults of ugly appearance, fragility,
The Red Spectacles box artwork and lacks the "Revisited Scene & Production" DVD of the Japanese version. The American "The Red Spectacles" DVD edition was reprinted in 2004, and since then is only available in the box set which was printed three times as of 2006 and remains the only edition released outside Japan. "The Red Spectacles" is the first film of the "Kerberos saga". Oshii would write a lengthy comic series expanding on the universe. "While Waiting for the Red Spectacles" (1987) is a radio drama prequel written by Kazunori Itō with an original soundtrack composed by Kenji Kawai. The film would