Glass prisms polished to perfection by the hands of antiquity enfold innovation bestowing gleams abundant with an efficiency that dares to push the bounds of shine. Upon the edge of tomorrow that …
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Fresnel Lenses Given a New Watch
These diadems of lighthouse majesty once scintillated like no other at the pinnacle of classical times. And what a splendid age it was! For there was a day when every lighthouse entrusted with the …
If Only I Could Talk with Augustin Fresnel
If only I could pull up a chair and confer with the great Augustin Fresnel. Just once! Oh, the questions I would ask. His replies would no doubt astound my every query. Light’s prism realm of …
Light on High
Light on high. But why? History recounts stories of keepers climbing spiral staircases – some quite considerable, to tend to the light aloft. And we too have retraced these very same steps today for …
Lighthouses in Time
What once was is now but ripples in lost epochs traversed. Disbursed back when and promptly indexed within the annals of memory, the anterior gleams of our lighthouse past are deemed frozen ridges of …
West Quoddy Head Light’s Crystalline Treasure
The stately appearance of a lighthouse is something to behold. Such majesty is magnified even further when a sentinel is still wearing its “crown” of crystalline in the form of a Fresnel lens. The …