
In 1910, JB Reiner and CD Keeler founded the Rayner Company in London, England. One of the early customers for his first spectacles was a four-year old boy named Harold Ridley.
This association with Rayner continued into Mr. Ridley’s professional career. Ridley worked with Rayner’s optical scientist John Pike on the first televised eye operations (black and white in 1948 and colour in 1950) and a system for examining the inner eye using electronic rather than optical methods (1949).