goggles: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	safety goggles • safety glasses

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Earhart, Amelia

Two early race cars with drivers and passengers wearing goggles speed down a dirt road, kicking up dust, as spectators watch from both sides during the Vanderbilt Cup Race around 1910.

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