The oldest lighthouse in Massachusetts is over 300 years old. When the Massachusetts Bay Colony was first founded in 1630, the Puritans struggled from a scarcity of necessary survival goods which lead ...
BOSTON – Boston Light, the nation’s first and oldest lighthouse station, is marking 300 years of warning mariners as they navigate the tricky waters of Boston Harbor. A summer celebrating the ...
Who will keep a light burning for lighthouses? Those main guardians of the shipping lanes, particularly along the Great Lakes, have hit upon hard times. As Global Positioning System units and the ...
The Fresnel lens was considered breakthrough technology in its era. French physicist Augustin Fresnel began life as a slow learner. He could barely read by age 8. However, his dogged ability to solve ...
A lighthouse keeper with a smile as bright as his warning light to sailors is being remembered for his love of his job and the often hard, but unique, life it entailed. The Friends of Tasman Island ...
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