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Original Hatteras Light Lens Found in Storage
WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) & AP ^
| September 19, 2002
| The Associated Press
Posted on 09/19/2002 12:59:18 PM PDT by Constitution Day
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:55:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The original lens for the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, long thought lost to war or thieves, has been found in a climate-controlled storage building on Roanoke Island.
The 6,000-pound Fresnel lens is made up of 1,000 pieces of precision glass prisms. Lighthouse lantern rooms using Fresnel lenses captured and concentrated light from the prisms and bounced it through a panel, making the beam blink.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: investingstocks; northcarolina; oldnorthstate; unhelpful
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To: Constitution Day
COOL!!!
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posted on
09/19/2002 1:00:26 PM PDT
by
billbears
To: *Old_North_State; **North_Carolina; mykdsmom; Lee'sGhost; KOZ.; borntodiefree; azhenfud; ...
To: Constitution Day
Pharologist-excited bump!!!
To: Hatteras
To: LiteKeeper
I suspected there were some pharologists on FR! ;)
To: backhoe
FYI!
To: Constitution Day
"Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum, which is expected to be completed in Hatteras by 2004." That oughtta be really cool...I've been visiting the Outer Banks at least once a year since '81 and have read a book or two about all the ships that ran aground there over the years. Very interesting history and someday I'd like to upgrade my scuba license to allow me to go inside some of the many wrecks that dot the waters around the OBX.
FReegards...MUD
To: Constitution Day
What an awesome find! The lighthouse has always been one of my favorites.
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posted on
09/19/2002 1:14:29 PM PDT
by
callisto
To: Mudboy Slim
To: Jonah Hex
Outer Banks ping!
To: Constitution Day
PBS had a running series on Lighthouses of the US and it was extremely entertaining and well done-probably available commercially now. They devoted some time to the Fresnel lens-glad to see that a part of history has been recovered intact.
To: Constitution Day
Yep, "dyed-in-th-wool" pharologist! I am pleased to know there are others in here!!!
To: Constitution Day
Thanks for the flag... I've been getting back slowly from a bare-metal recovery over the weekend- and I have to step out in a minute to fetch my wife... I'll get back here later, I hope!
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posted on
09/19/2002 1:27:10 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: LiteKeeper
I guess I am a pharologist, but didn't realize it.
My license plate looks like this, so I suppose I am!
To: backhoe
Hope so!
To: Constitution Day
That is pretty cool. I love Hatteras. Great place to surf.
To: LiteKeeper
Yep, "dyed-in-th-wool" pharologist! I am pleased to know there are others in here!!! Hey, whatever you guys do in the privacy of your bedrooms is your own business, leave us out of it. ;-)
Hatteras? That's the one on wheels, isn't it?
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posted on
09/19/2002 2:20:04 PM PDT
by
TomB
To: Constitution Day
Oh, that silly old glassy thing-a-ma-jiggy out in the barn? I was wundering where that came from. Why didn't they just ask? I coulda told 'em where it was! Almost sold it at my yard sale last month but no one could lift it. Had to take them little glass pieces away from the kids, they almost burned down the house trying to fry bugs!....
Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
09/19/2002 2:20:57 PM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: Constitution Day
I need some help finding my car keys?
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