I recently had to do some research to create an optical quiz. During the process I came across a range of interesting facts. It never ceases to amaze me what opticians through the years have got up to and clearly this has always been the case. One such maverick was Hatschek bela .
He was an optician and the first man in Hungary to have a car. Apparently Arch Duke Ferdinand mistook the noise of his vehicle as an assassination attempt during a visit to the city. If only he had always been so alert.