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Leonardo da vinci in the early 1500's invented contact lenses.

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The inventor of contact lenses is a Czech chemist and inventor named Otto Wichterle. He developed the first soft contact lenses in the 1960s using a hydrophilic plastic material known as hydrogel.

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