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 ...

Working with some of the most advanced glassmakers of the day, he produced a combination of prism shapes that together made up a lens. The Fresnel lighthouse lens used a large lamp at the focal ...

The second construction of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse was outfitted with these Fresnel Lens glass panels that magnify and intensify light beams and the original model can be seen on the ground ...

Fresnel lenses are all around us, but this vase puts the commonplace technology to work in an entirely new way. Borrowed From Old Lighthouses, A Method For Super-Powerful Solar Power With the help ...