Digest>Jan/Feb 2019
Photo Caption:
Lighthouse keeper Harry E. Spencer is shown here standing next to the 1st order Fresnel lens from the Navesink Light Station in Highlands, New Jersey at the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This was the first Fresnel lens to have been used in America. (Harry Spencer, Jr. Collection, Lighthouse Digest archives.) Back to the edition of: Jan/Feb 2019
Story:
The Mysterious Disappearance of America’s First Fresnel Lens
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