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A Shady Business

  • November 9, 2013
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Sam Foster introduced America’s first mass-produced sunglasses with plastic lenses in 1929, selling his Foster Grants on the Atlantic City boardwalk. His company was also the first in the U.S. to use injection molding, forming sunglass parts by injecting plastic into molds.

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