Eyeglasses, spectacles, goggles and glasses. But in which order?
Solution 1:
OED has the following first citations for the sense of lenses to alter vision:
- spectacles: c1430
- glasses: 1545
- goggles: 1715
- eye-glass: 1768
eyeglass n.
3b. In mod. use, a lens of glass or crystal for assisting defective sight. double eye-glass, (pair of) eyeglasses : two such lenses mounted side by side so as to assist the sight of both eyes; the name is by usage restricted to a pair of lenses to be held in the hand or kept in position by a spring on the nose; those which are secured by pieces of metal placed over the ears being called spectacles.1768 T. Harmer in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 283, I have often found, by the help of an eye-glass, that..I passed over great multitudes of eggs.