Optician

Examples

• Of course, we always have the optician clue to fall back upon, but I take a short cut when I can get it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The story goes that an apprentice of Hans Lipperhey, an optician of Middleburg, in Holland, was, one day in October, 1608, playing with some spectacle lenses in his master’s shop. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There are indications that she has had recourse to an optician at least twice during the last few months. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He told Master Hans about this, and the optician fixed two lenses in a tube, and looking at the weathercock on a neighboring steeple saw that it seemed much nearer and to be upside down. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The Count stopped again and entered a small optician's shop, with an inscription in the window announcing that repairs were neatly executed inside. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I confess, however, that I am unable to understand how you arrive at the double visit to the optician. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• These black lines were, in 1814, carefully mapped by a German optician, named Fraunhofer, and were found by him to be 576 in number. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As her glasses are of remarkable strength, and as opticians are not very numerous, there should be no difficulty in tracing her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The only people who did anything in electricity were the telegraphers and the opticians making simple school apparatus to demonstrate the principles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I had intended, however, to go the round of the London opticians. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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