Related: There’s No Restaurant In New Jersey Quite As Wonderfully Wacky As This One Earlier lighthouses often had separate keeper’s houses or very minimal living quarters. Later lighthouses, as ...

The Sea Girt Lighthouse, on the other hand, looks like someone’s beloved grandmother’s house decided to moonlight as a navigational aid. It’s the only lighthouse in New Jersey that was built as a live ...

McGulpin Point Lighthouse in Mackinaw City will soon have a new display that shines a light on maritime history in the Straits region. The Emmet County Board of Commissioners recently approved ...

Lighthouses are far more than tall towers with bright bulbs, they are precision optical systems designed to push light across the horizon. This breaks down how Fresnel lenses concentrate beams, why ...

Fresnel lenses are used in many fields, including: Projection display: Fresnel projection TV, rear projection Fresnel screen, overhead projector, collimator; Concentrating light: Fresnel lens for ...

A spectacular 19th century creation that’s been sitting in a Maryland office building for 40 years will soon go on public display. It’s a sparkling Fresnel lens that used to be part of the Thomas ...

The long-running restoration of the iconic Cape Hatteras Lighthouse continues to progress with several major milestones reached, even as some unforeseen structural challenges extend the timeline and ...

Fresnel lenses are used in many fields, including: Projection display: Fresnel projection TV, rear projection Fresnel screen, overhead projector, collimator; Concentrating light: Fresnel lens for ...

Amidst an ongoing $18 million restoration project of the Pigeon Point Light Station Historic Park, community members are invited to celebrate the lighthouse’s 153rd anniversary with a lighting of the ...

Admission to this event is free. Corolla, NC – In celebration of the upcoming 150th anniversary of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse (December 1, 1875 – 2025), Outer Banks Conservationists (OBC) and The ...