The Point Pinos Lighthouse in Pacific Grove marks its 170th anniversary with a day of festivities and historical activities.

The Pensacola Lighthouse and Maritime Museum offers the opportunity to learn more about the history of the lighthouse an ...

The funds will be used to install educational displays at the South Pier Entrance lighthouse, which is the outermost ...

stands at the top of the lighthouse next to its Fresnel lens. He has family ties to lighthouse keepers there, going all the way back to the late 1830s. Tom Sintes' ties to the Amelia Island ...

FERNANDINA BEACH — The Amelia Island Lighthouse, Florida's oldest, is just 67 feet tall, far shorter than most of the state's major lighthouses. But it gains in stature by its position atop the ...

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." ...

Government lighthouses at Rawley Point (also known ... The top lantern room was equipped with a third-order Fresnel lens, transferred from the original brick tower and installed on Nov. 20 ...

Weekend entertainment includes the Cirque Italia Water Circus, a new album from jazz artist Leon Anderson and the Wildlife ...

Absecon Lighthouse, New Jersey’s tallest and the country’s third tallest masonry light, will celebrate the 168th anniversary of the lighting of its historic first-order Fresnel Lens this weekend.

A fresnel light (pronounced frəˈnel) has a stairsteped lens that varies the spread of the beam. Frenel is named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel, who invented it for use in lighthouses. Focusing a fresnel ...

Every pane is an abstraction of the traditional Fresnel lenses used in lighthouses all over Nova Scotia. But they also take the name “chocks” for the supports that maintain a ship’s hull.