Digest>Jul/Aug 2022

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Charles E. Hellwig (right) looks on while one of his crew puts a match to the old incandescent oil vapor light. They are both standing inside the first order Fresnel lens, whose prisms you can barely make out overhead. (Courtesy of The Huntington Library)
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Point Conception Light’s Shocking History
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