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Ray-Ban is a brand of luxury sunglasses and eyeglasses created in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb. The brand is best known for its Wayfarer and Aviator lines of sunglasses. In 1999, Bausch & Lomb sold the brand to Italian eyewear conglomerate Luxottica Group for a reported $640 million.
Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses and eyeglasses have been manufactured by Ray-Ban since 1952. Made popular in the 1950s and 1960s by music and film icons such as Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and James Dean , Wayfarers almost became discontinued in the 1970s, before a major resurgence was created in the 1980s through massive product placements .
Besides the standard model there are several different Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses variations designed as functional, technical and recreational sunglasses . The Ray-Ban Shooter variant was introduced in 1938 and the Ray-Ban Outdoorsman variant in 1939.
May 29 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch Cartesian mathematician (born 1615) June 30 – William Oughtred, English mathematician who invented the slide rule (born 1574) Jean-Jacques Chifflet, French physician and antiquary (born 1588) Walter Rumsey, Welsh judge and amateur scientist (born 1584)
Francis Willughby's Ornithologiae is published by John Ray, the foundation of scientific ornithology. Medicine. William Briggs publishes an anatomy of the eye (the first in England), Ophthalmographia, at Cambridge. Thomas Sydenham publishes the textbook Observationes mediciae, the enlarged 3rd edition of his Methodus curandi febres.
Rasmus Bartholin publishes his observation of the birefringence of a light ray by Iceland spar . Robert Boyle publishes A Continuation of New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring and Weight of the Air, and Their Effects. Physiology and medicine. Richard Lower publishes his Tractatus de Corde on the workings of the heart.
Births. February 4 – Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist and developer of porcelain manufacture (died 1719) February 25 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (died 1771) March 24 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (died 1749) April 16 – John Hadley, English mathematician (died 1744) July 10 – Roger Cotes, English ...
John Ray publishes Catalogus plantarum Angliæ, the basis of all later floras of England. The predecessor of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is opened as a physic garden by Drs Robert Sibbald and Andrew Balfour in Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland. Earth sciences. Jean Picard calculates the Earth radius to within 0.44% of the modern value.
Literature. Timeline of cosmological theories. List of open letters by academics. History of technology by type. List of science timelines. v. t. e. The year 1627 in science and technology involved some significant events.
August 6 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed in the AC electric chair. October 9 – The first brief flight of Clément Ader 's steam-powered fixed-wing aircraft Eole takes place in Satory, France.