Outer Banks Voice It stands just under 10 feet and weighs 5,050 pounds and is the future crown jewel of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. The reproduction of the original 1853 ...

The Office of Naval Research funded the development of a simple array of six lights outfitted with Fresnel lenses mounted on the stern of a ship, called a Tactical Vectoring Equipment (TVE) display.

PORT TOWNSEND — The United States Lighthouse Society will host an event Saturday to celebrate the restoration of Point Wilson’s historic 1879 Fresnel lens. The light from the Fresnel lens is replacing ...

On Monday, expert lampist Chad Kaiser got to work disassembling the more than 100-year-old Fresnel lens at the Dali Museum in Monterey. “Compared with several other lenses around the country, it is in ...

In its 154 years, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in Buxton has saved countless mariners from disaster in the treacherous waters where the Gulf Stream clashes with the Labrador Current and tries to shove ...

On Monday morning, as bright sunshine cut through puffy clouds and ever-steady winds whipped the western edge of the continent, three of the nation’s five certified lampists could be found atop the ...

GRAVES LEDGE, BOSTON HARBOR — Dave Waller and Bobby Sager are used to taking on daunting projects. A decade ago, they bid against each other at the government auction for Graves Light, a historic ...

Give some mundane, old gear to an artist with a liking for technology, and he can turn it into a mesmerizing piece of art. [dmitry] created “red, an optic-sound electronic object” which uses simple ...

A lens manufactured in France in 1902 is shining high atop Montauk Point Lighthouse once again. Earlier this month the U.S. Coast Guard relit the clamshell-shaped Fresnel lens, which guided mariners ...

Following official approval of a series of major concentrated photovoltaics (CPV) projects by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Soitec’s solar energy division is setting up a ...

Point Sur Lightstation is getting its original First-Order Fresnel lens back.The United States Coast Guard signed off on returning the 1887 Fresnel back to Point Sur on Monday and the work to get it ...