Head to Florida's tallest lighthouse, brimming with history, to complement your vacation with panoramic views of the ...

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

A first-order Fresnel lens made the light visible from nineteen miles at sea. It is now automated and still active. This lighthouse looks something like a candy cane without the curving top.

The tower is notable for its rare 9-foot-tall first-order Fresnel lens that can be seen from more than 20 nautical miles away. It's important to know that this lighthouse is only accessible by ...

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 ...

Making a traditional glass lens requires a lot of experience, skill, and patience grinding a piece of glass to the required shape, and is not for the casual experimenter. Making a glass Fresnel ...

the area of the tower that houses a powerful third-order Fresnel lens that still casts a beam 23 miles out to sea. At last, I emerged onto the wind-swept circular deck surrounding the lighthouse ...