USLS hopes to display the LED lens in the museum at the base of the lighthouse. Gales said that in addition to its beauty and historical interest, the Fresnel lens provides better light.

This is the Corps that employed optical genius, Agustin-Jean Fresnel. Although some lighthouses were already using lenses, they weren’t using the special Fresnel-style lenses. There had been ...

The 2½-foot-tall Fresnel lens refracted the light from an oil lamp that had to ... as photographs on display show. But Tardiff and other volunteers have worked extensively to restore it to ...

Now that the Amelia Island Lighthouse beacon is back in operation ... This arrangement was replaced by a third-order Barbier Benard Fresnel lens in 1903, which is still used to this day." ...