PLAY PODCASTS
Episode 54 - Navesink Lighthouse (Twin Lights)
Episode 54

Episode 54 - Navesink Lighthouse (Twin Lights)

The Lighthouse Lowdown · Emily Straight and Vincent Bailey

June 10, 202433m 8s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (content.rss.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Original episode pageView transcript

Show Notes

There's a first for everything, and Navesink Lighthouse was there for a lot of them! When it became the first station to have a Fresnel lens in the Unites States, Navesink secured it's position as the guinea pig for a lot of the country's new innovations and technology. Listen in for the story of a lighthouse so powerful, that chickens stopped laying eggs.

Liked this episode? Leave us a review on thelighthouselowdown.com

References:

  1. International Code of Signals 1969
  2. Twin Lights Historical Society
  3. Navesink Lighthouse | Lighthouse Friends
  4. The Fresnel Affair: Manufacturing, Technology Transfer, Republicanism, and the Adoption of the Fresnel Lighthouse Lens in the United States, 1819 - 1852
  5. Fresnel Lens Development Chronology
← All episodes of The Lighthouse Lowdown