Joseph Hasner's Automatic Eyeball machine of 1862
Original engraving from The Illustrated London news of 27 December 1862. Info from wiki: Joseph Hasner, Ritter von Artha (13 August 1819 – 2 February 1892) was an Austrian ophthalmologist born in Prague. He studied medicine at the University of Prague, and subsequently worked at the local general hospital (1842). In 1843 he was an assistant at Johann Fischer's eye clinic. In 1848 he gained his habilitation, and in 1852 he became an associate professor. From 1856 he was a "full professor" of ophthalmology and a primary physician in Prague. Hasner is remembered for the discovery of plica lacrimalis, which is a fold of mucous membrane that guards the lower
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