Published

September 24, 2013

Exploring Cabrillo

We celebrate the 100th anniversary of the national monument and park at the end of the Point with (what else?) fun facts galore.

By Archana Ram | illustration by Kristina Micotti

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There are 234 prisms made of hand-ground crystal in the lighthouse’s Fresnel lens, developed by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel. / The third-order Fresnel lens is a relic of the past; the lenses were made in France and what was once Czechoslovakia, but all the craftsmen who knew how to make them were killed in WWII.

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