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Occupations | Operates jeweler's lathe to cut inside or outside curvature in contact lens blanks: Reads prescription to determine lens thickness and dioptric power and converts specified dioptric power to radius dimensions, using conversion table. Inserts plastic blank in holding chuck of lathe. Adjusts cutting tool mechanism for specified radius of inside or outside curvature and depth of cut. Starts lathe and turns crank to advance cutting tool. Observes gauge and readjusts lathe to prevent excessive cutting. Pulls control arm to move cutting tool across face of lens. Removes lens from chuck and examines lens for smoothness of cut. Measures lens to verify compliance with specifications, using thickness gauge and calipers. Tapes finished lens to work order and places lens in routing box. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 41 54 48 45 4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52 2C 43 4F 4E 54 41 43 54 4C 45 4E 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010 00101100 00100000 01000011 01001111 01001110 01010100 01000001 01000011 01010100 00100000 01001100 01000101 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L A T H E   O P E R A T O R ,   C O N T A C T   L E N S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0041 0054 0048 0045 004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052 002C 0043 004F 004E 0054 0041 0043 0054 004C 0045 004E 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)46355442392495039523554495214237494854353754246394853 |
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