Contractors hired by the National Park Service are midway through the delicate two-week task of reassembling the original 1858 lens of the Fire Island Lighthouse. The 9,000-pound lens was removed from ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early nineteenth century, ...
May 31—NEWBURYPORT — The fourth order Fresnel lens, a guiding light and beloved piece at the Custom House Maritime Museum since the late 1970s, will soon return to its original home at Pomham Rocks ...
In custom pine boxes — not unlike primitive coffins — rests a Fresnel lens ordered in the mid-1880s for San Diego’s then-new lighthouse. But this elusive lighthouse lens, designated H-L 330 by its ...
Almost 90 years after it was first installed in the historic Point Cabrillo Lighthouse, the 1937 motor that has long helped guide mariners through the night along the Mendocino Coast is back in ...
State of the art, one of the seven wonders of the Ancient World, the great lighthouse of Alexandria, built around 280 B.C., towered some 450 feet above Egypt's greatest harbor. At that height, it was ...
John Hill likens the first-order Fresnel lens in the lighthouse at Naval Air Station Pensacola to a fabergé egg. "They aren't made anymore. It is one of only 10 left in the U.S. There is no putting a ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early nineteenth century, ...