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The display at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum includes the American Optical glasses that Neil Armstrong wore during his moon landing in 1969.\r\nMicroscopes only appeared on their product list after 1935 when they bought Spencer Lens Company. AOC became part of the Warner-Lambert Group in 1967. 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