Just under a month after the restoration and preservation of the Tybee Lighthouse was completed, a prism has shattered. According to Tybee Island Historical Society Director Sarah Jones, part of the ...
LAKE COUNTY, Minn. — A full-sized replica of Split Rock Lighthouse's third-order Fresnel lens — like the one that occasionally casts its beam out over Lake Superior — is among the highlights of the ...
In its 154 years, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton has saved countless mariners from disaster in the treacherous waters where the Gulf Stream clashes with the Labrador Current and tries to shove ...
The Fresnel lens was considered breakthrough technology in its era. French physicist Augustin Fresnel began life as a slow learner. He could barely read by age 8. However, his dogged ability to solve ...
GRAVES LEDGE, BOSTON HARBOR — Dave Waller and Bobby Sager are used to taking on daunting projects. A decade ago, they bid against each other at the government auction for Graves Light, a historic ...
When light enters the Bodie Island Lighthouse at the right angle, the 344 prisms of the Fresnel lens “create some truly striking and vibrant rainbows,” the National Park Service reports. National Park ...
At the southern tip of Texas, hundreds of people gathered around the last public lighthouse in the state on Friday. No living person in Port Isabel had seen the city's lighthouse's beacon shine before ...
Work started Monday on a project to apply film to a tall glass structure surrounding the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse lens to protect it from ultraviolet light. Most of the work by San Luis Customs, ...
A new building to display the original lens of the Fire Island Lighthouse opens at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the lighthouse site. After a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new building displaying the original ...
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