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Barnegat Lighthouse, NJ
The first-order Fresnel lens for the Barnegat Lighthouse was fabricated in 1856 by Henry LePaute of Paris, France. It's
1027 glass prisms and brass mountings were shipped to New York on board the Arago in March of 1857. When assembled in the
lantern room, the lens had twenty-four bulls-eye panels distributed evenly around is central band. Weights, suspended in the
tower, and a clockwork mechanism rotated the lens once every four minutes, producing a brilliant flash with a period of ten
seconds. The light was activated on January 1, 1859 and was kept by two keepers, who lived in a new dwelling constructed near
the base of the tower.
Item #4703
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