Episode 35 - Montauk Point Lighthouse

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 Wow. 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:04,840 Hi, everyone. 3 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:06,400 I'm Emily and I'm Vince. 4 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,840 And this is the Lighthouse 5 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:09,920 Lowdown. 6 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,600 I forgot the button. 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:18,480 We've made it more complicated for 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,240 ourselves having to physically 9 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:23,320 press the button when originally 10 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,720 I would just drop the audio 11 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:26,720 in. 12 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,920 But I think it's more fun, 13 00:00:28,920 --> 00:00:29,920 easier for me later. 14 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,880 And we can sing during it now. 15 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:33,880 Yeah. Now you can instead 16 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,280 of getting a peaceful 17 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:38,800 moment from us talking, 18 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:40,840 instead you get maybe 19 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:42,040 we should just remove it entirely 20 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:43,080 and just have us sing the whole 21 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:44,080 thing. 22 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:47,720 Not this time. 23 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:50,200 OK, so our history 24 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,200 today, I'm excited about it's 25 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:53,840 going to be types of Fresnel 26 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:54,600 lenses. 27 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:55,120 Very good. 28 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,080 Which we discussed me doing 29 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,560 in one of the earlier podcasts, 30 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:00,560 one of the most recent ones. 31 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,120 And it's very visual. 32 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,000 So if you're listening 33 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,520 to the podcast and you want to see 34 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:07,880 what I'm talking about because 35 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:09,920 lenses are super cool and I think 36 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,840 they're really pretty and they're 37 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:13,120 all very different, which is what 38 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:14,120 I'm going to be covering today. 39 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:16,160 Then head over and watch the video 40 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:18,080 because that'll be you 41 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:19,760 can just go over, watch the video 42 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:20,840 as I'm talking about the history 43 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,360 buoy and then come back to 44 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:23,760 listen to the podcast. 45 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:25,160 But YouTube has a video, 46 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,560 the Lighthouse Lowdown YouTube 47 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:27,400 channel. 48 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:27,720 Yeah. 49 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:29,960 And then not the video, but images 50 00:01:29,960 --> 00:01:31,080 are on Instagram. 51 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,000 And you can watch the video. 52 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:33,880 You don't have to go to YouTube. 53 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:35,640 You can just go to our website. 54 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:37,360 That has a little that's right. 55 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,840 The Lighthouse Lowdown dot com. 56 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:41,440 So. 57 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,320 But yes. 58 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,400 But yeah, so that's I'm going to 59 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:49,160 be doing that today. 60 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,200 And I think you'd benefit 61 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,600 greatly from seeing the pictures 62 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:53,760 because Vince will be seeing here 63 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:55,560 seeing them all up on the screen. 64 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:56,560 So. Right. 65 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:58,920 Obviously, the point of a 66 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:00,920 Fresnel lens is to focus as 67 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:03,240 much of a light source as possible 68 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,160 in a direction 69 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:06,760 that could be if it's a fixed light, 70 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,680 it's all directions or 71 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:10,640 a singular direction, which is how 72 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:12,080 you get the beam of a lighthouse 73 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:14,440 tower is it's focused. 74 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:16,120 And that's what the point of a 75 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:18,280 Fresnel lenses and actually a lens 76 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:20,680 now that they're, you 77 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:22,160 know, originally we had, you know, 78 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,440 reflectors and just like 79 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,560 it's like mirrored surfaces 80 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:28,640 that kind of did that same 81 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:30,640 job. And it was like 40 82 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:32,640 percent of the light source was 83 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,360 captured and redirected. 84 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,400 But with a Fresnel lens, up 85 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,480 to 98 percent of a light 86 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:40,800 is captured by the prisms 87 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:41,800 and redirected. 88 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:43,400 So that's why it's so powerful. 89 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:44,480 Yeah. I'll show you. 90 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,760 So this is basically just a cross 91 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,200 section of a Fresnel lens. 92 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:49,400 So you can see what the prisms 93 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:50,400 looks like. 94 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,240 The prisms closest to the 95 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,600 bullseye or the middle section. 96 00:02:54,600 --> 00:02:56,120 It varies. 97 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:57,160 And I'll show you a picture in a 98 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:57,960 second. 99 00:02:57,960 --> 00:02:59,720 But the middle part doesn't 100 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,400 have to redirect the light as 101 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,160 much because it's right in front 102 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:04,120 of where the light is coming 103 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:04,880 from. 104 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:06,480 And so they're shaped differently 105 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:08,720 than the prisms that are further 106 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,360 up or down from the light 107 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:11,960 source in the Fresnel lens, 108 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:13,560 because the Fresnel lens just goes 109 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:14,920 on top of the light source. 110 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,960 It's like you just put it over 111 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:19,080 the top of a bulb or 112 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,040 you know, early on it was just 113 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,120 candles or oil 114 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:24,360 lamps or something like that. 115 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:27,840 And so the prisms 116 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:29,800 on the top and bottom basically 117 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:31,640 have to work harder to redirect 118 00:03:31,640 --> 00:03:33,400 light into the direction that you 119 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:34,720 want it to go in the middle ones. 120 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:35,680 So they're shaped differently. 121 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,720 So closer to the very 122 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:38,880 middle of the Fresnel lens, 123 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,000 they're called dioptric prisms 124 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,200 and further up are catadioptric. 125 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:46,280 Basically just the ones further 126 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:47,520 up or down have to 127 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:49,920 bend the light at a steeper 128 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:52,120 angle than ones that are closer 129 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:52,960 to the middle of the lens, 130 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:54,160 which is why they're shaped 131 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:54,560 different. 132 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:54,920 Yeah. 133 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,240 So they're different shape, 134 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,160 which is essentially angling 135 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,960 the light out in a linear fashion 136 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,640 straight out from the Fresnel 137 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:02,000 lens. 138 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,760 And then they're also different 139 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:05,760 sizes. 140 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,240 So it looks like the ones that are 141 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:07,840 dioptric. 142 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:09,040 So they're further away from the 143 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:10,560 light source or larger, 144 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:11,280 at least in this 145 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:13,480 in this diagram. 146 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:15,920 Yeah, I think they usually are. 147 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,240 It's kind of like dioptric is half 148 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:20,520 of what a catadioptric prism is. 149 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:21,920 And the picture that I'm showing 150 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:23,960 is simplified. 151 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,400 But if you have like 152 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:27,280 I'm about to talk about it in a 153 00:04:27,280 --> 00:04:28,120 second, but there are different 154 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:29,360 sizes of Fresnel lenses, 155 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,680 which we talk about all the time. 156 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:30,800 Yeah. 157 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,320 First order, fourth or eighth 158 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:32,600 order. 159 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,480 And that just means how many 160 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:36,640 prisms there are. 161 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:38,160 And it's obviously smaller in 162 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:38,560 size. 163 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:39,680 So if you have an eighth order, 164 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:41,320 you'll have like four prisms 165 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:42,840 total around the sides. 166 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:43,040 Yeah. 167 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,800 And if you have first order, 168 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,400 it's, I don't know, 169 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:48,600 a hundred or something. 170 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,040 You know, it's just yeah. 171 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:51,240 It's basically that 172 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,880 the light on the inside 173 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:54,920 could be the same. 174 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:57,200 But because the Fresnel lens 175 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:58,760 is so much bigger with so many 176 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:00,320 prisms, it's capturing every 177 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:02,640 little scrap of light 178 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:03,840 that is coming out from that 179 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:06,000 light source and redirecting it. 180 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:06,280 So. 181 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:07,680 It's cool. 182 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:09,720 So this I'm showing a chart 183 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,320 from the US LHS page, 184 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:14,800 which tells you what 185 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:17,400 sizes there are and how many 186 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:18,360 there were in the US, 187 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:19,280 what the cost is, 188 00:05:19,280 --> 00:05:20,280 what their size is. 189 00:05:20,280 --> 00:05:21,480 So it kind of just breaks it all 190 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:21,760 down. 191 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,760 I'm not going to talk about all 192 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,480 of this, but basically you're 193 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:27,120 the largest Fresnel lens you 194 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,920 have is hyper radial and it 195 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:30,320 goes all the way down to eighth 196 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:32,360 order, which is just a couple 197 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,480 inches in height and diameter. 198 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,240 And then the hyper radial is 199 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:37,920 12 over 12 feet tall. 200 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:39,840 And I'll have a picture of that 201 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:40,080 too. 202 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,120 But the I'm looking at the cost 203 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:42,560 over here. 204 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:43,040 Yeah. 205 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,840 OK, those are in nineteen 206 00:05:44,840 --> 00:05:46,000 hundred dollars. 207 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,640 So like so nowadays 208 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,040 a hyper radial lens in nineteen 209 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,240 hundred was twenty seven 210 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:52,920 thousand dollars. 211 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:54,960 And today that amounts to nearly 212 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:55,960 a million dollars. 213 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:56,920 That is nuts. 214 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:57,280 I know. 215 00:05:57,880 --> 00:05:59,640 So I got to pick up. 216 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:00,600 I like charts. 217 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,200 Oh, there's also I like charts. 218 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,920 I like chart number of them 219 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,600 of each size in the US. 220 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,320 And there's a nineteen hundred 221 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:10,440 and nineteen twenty two in the 222 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:11,360 nineteen forty five. 223 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,800 There's one shown for that 224 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:14,800 hyper radial. 225 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:16,800 Is that the same one we talk 226 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,080 about it? 227 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:17,400 All right. 228 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:18,680 You I'll tell you about it. 229 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:19,800 I don't need to cut you off. 230 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:20,480 That's pretty cool. 231 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:21,160 Yeah. 232 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:23,600 And another thing on this chart, 233 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:25,000 a couple of these sizes have a 234 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:26,320 little asterisk next to it. 235 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:29,680 And that just means that the 236 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,560 size of lens it was developed 237 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,520 after Fresnel originally 238 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:38,080 designed the lens. 239 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:39,800 So it's like somebody else 240 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:41,080 developed the size. 241 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:41,760 The size. 242 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:42,080 Yeah. 243 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:43,720 And so that that would be 244 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,800 hyper radial and so radial. 245 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:47,840 I there's none in the US 246 00:06:47,840 --> 00:06:49,040 and there's only been two ever 247 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:50,360 built, so I didn't look too 248 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:51,040 deep into that. 249 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,840 But maybe one of these days I'll 250 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:53,640 try and find one of the 251 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,240 lighthouses that had a lens like 252 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:56,760 that because it's just a 253 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:57,440 different size. 254 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,320 I think it's not probably not 255 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:00,720 anything outrageous, but there's 256 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:02,160 also three and a half order, 257 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:03,160 which I thought was funny. 258 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,280 And it must have just been 259 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,680 because third order is twice the 260 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:09,680 size of a fourth order in radius. 261 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:10,560 And so they were probably like, 262 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:11,400 why don't we have something 263 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,280 that's in between this and made 264 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:14,160 it a three and a half order. 265 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:14,960 And that's actually going to 266 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,240 show up in our podcast today. 267 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:17,760 OK. 268 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:19,560 Seventh order and eighth order 269 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,200 were not in the US. 270 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:22,680 I guess you can see it on the 271 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:23,080 screen. 272 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,120 They never that was a lot more 273 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,160 of a Europe thing to have. 274 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:28,800 I didn't realize that smaller 275 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:29,720 lenses like that. 276 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:31,600 Do you know why? 277 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,200 It's mostly I think it's just 278 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:37,600 because we defaulted often to a 279 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:38,600 fourth order lens. 280 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:39,760 When we would build a 281 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:40,840 lighthouse, it wouldn't be on a 282 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:41,800 river or anything. 283 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,440 I don't know if we have any 284 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:45,040 lighthouses on a river. 285 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:46,360 But in Europe, they did. 286 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,600 Yeah, you know, yeah, just a lot 287 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,800 more little islands and stuff. 288 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:52,720 So smaller range. 289 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:52,920 Yeah. 290 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,720 And buoys a lot had eighth 291 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:55,680 order lenses on them. 292 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,520 So just little lights. 293 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:00,880 I will start now with talking 294 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:05,080 about flash patterns, you know, 295 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:06,480 light characteristics. 296 00:08:06,480 --> 00:08:10,000 We've done a podcast, was it 297 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,040 history, but yeah, we have. 298 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:13,240 Yeah. 299 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:14,600 So we've covered it before, but 300 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,880 the light characteristic depends 301 00:08:17,880 --> 00:08:19,480 on what your frontal lens looks 302 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:19,880 like. 303 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,000 And so every time you have like 304 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,560 group occulting or you have a 305 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,360 flashing light or you have a 306 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:27,640 fixed light, it's because the 307 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,000 frontal lens looks different. 308 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:29,840 And that's why you have a 309 00:08:29,840 --> 00:08:31,560 different flash pattern today. 310 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:33,440 Not so much because another 311 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:34,080 electric focus. 312 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:35,200 Yeah, exactly. 313 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:36,920 But originally it was because of 314 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:37,720 the Fresnel lenses. 315 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,280 So I have pictures up if anyone 316 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,800 wants to go the lighthouse 317 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:42,600 lowdown.com. 318 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:43,320 I'll have video. 319 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,600 You can go ahead and see what 320 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:45,360 the lens look like. 321 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:46,960 But a lot of these pictures came 322 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,880 from the US LHS as well. 323 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:51,000 They did a whole section on this. 324 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,160 So first one that I have up is a 325 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:55,320 fixed lens. 326 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:58,040 And so this is basically a 327 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:01,440 Fresnel lens that is not moving. 328 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:03,840 And so you don't have a focused 329 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,240 singular beam. 330 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,080 It's basically the light 331 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,640 protrudes out from every 332 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,000 direction of the Fresnel lens. 333 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,480 So you can't have a bullseye. 334 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,840 You have to have light available 335 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:15,800 from all angle. 336 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,240 If you're sailing around the 337 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:18,800 lighthouse, it should never be a 338 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:19,320 flash. 339 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:20,240 There should never be any 340 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:22,480 discontinuation of the light 341 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:23,040 that you're seeing. 342 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:25,760 So the fixed lens has like this 343 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,480 donut around the middle instead 344 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:30,520 of being broken up into bullseyes. 345 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,200 It's just a bubble. 346 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:34,200 It's like like what is it called 347 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:35,320 when you are swimming and you 348 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:35,840 have a tube? 349 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:39,520 I can't think of it at the moment. 350 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:40,280 It's a donut tube. 351 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:42,400 Like the like tire tubes that 352 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:44,720 people used to go on the lazy 353 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:45,120 river. 354 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:45,560 Exactly. 355 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:47,400 That's what it reminds me of. 356 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,040 But it's just like slightly 357 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,400 convex. 358 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,600 Convex. 359 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:55,000 Yes. 360 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:55,320 OK. 361 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:56,600 I think. 362 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:00,040 From every side of that, you have 363 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,040 the prisms that we're talking 364 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:03,080 about. 365 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,280 It's fun because in these pictures 366 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,600 you can see the shape of them is 367 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:08,680 that diopteric is just a 368 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:09,960 think of the triangle that's 369 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,280 straight on one side and then has 370 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,000 to right triangle. 371 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,200 Isometric. 372 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,880 Oh, man, we're really 373 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:16,880 challenging ourselves. 374 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:18,680 I could just move on and not say 375 00:10:18,680 --> 00:10:19,440 anything. 376 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:20,560 Well, I wanted to say it's 377 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:21,480 interesting. 378 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:22,560 I don't mean to cut you off. 379 00:10:22,560 --> 00:10:23,320 No, no. 380 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:24,520 We talked about the diagram 381 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:24,840 earlier. 382 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,400 It was a cross section cut of a 383 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,080 Fresnel lens. 384 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,720 And I never realized that what 385 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,560 the attempt is. 386 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:33,640 You have your light source in the 387 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:34,240 center. 388 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:34,760 Yeah. 389 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:36,560 And the attempt is to redirect 390 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:37,720 all of the light from the light 391 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,680 source straight out 392 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:43,280 horizontally from all points on 393 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:44,640 the piece of glass that is the 394 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:45,640 Fresnel lens. 395 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:47,440 I always thought of it as 396 00:10:47,440 --> 00:10:49,120 focusing the light to the center 397 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,480 point of the Fresnel lens. 398 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:51,120 Oh, yeah. 399 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,240 Like as close as you get to a 400 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:55,240 laser beam, to a direct beam. 401 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:57,360 But really, so the actual beam 402 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:00,640 height is several feet tall. 403 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,520 What is this, like 12 feet tall? 404 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,240 Rather than, you know, focus to 405 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:05,200 be as small as it can be. 406 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,800 It's all of the light on a stack 407 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,360 of light, if that makes any 408 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:09,600 sense. 409 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,320 A column is going out rather 410 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:12,200 than a point. 411 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,120 And just something else I was 412 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:16,080 going to say is that this first 413 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,640 picture, I believe, is a third 414 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:18,800 order lens. 415 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:20,120 And the second picture is a 416 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:20,760 first order. 417 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:21,960 So you can just see the 418 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:23,040 difference in the amount of 419 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:23,600 prisms. 420 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,320 They're all the same size. 421 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,000 It's just that, you know, that 422 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:28,720 one's so much bigger with so 423 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:30,520 many more that they look small. 424 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:31,480 I can't believe the work that 425 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:32,560 must be involved in getting 426 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:33,040 these polished. 427 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:33,960 I know. 428 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:35,320 Gosh, I know. 429 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,000 It's not sometimes. 430 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,360 It's often. 431 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:40,000 Next one that I'm showing is a 432 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:40,880 flashing lens. 433 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:42,520 So you have your bull's eyes and 434 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:43,840 all of them are curved. 435 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:44,880 And obviously this is going to 436 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,800 be like a lot more expensive 437 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,320 over process to make than just 438 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,200 the straight ones. 439 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,080 Yeah. 440 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:52,360 Yeah, this is just a flashing 441 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:52,560 lens. 442 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:57,080 So each time the this Fresnel 443 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,400 lens, this is also first order, 444 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,960 as you can tell by the sheer 445 00:11:59,960 --> 00:12:02,880 size of it, it rotates and it 446 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:04,480 could be on clockwork mechanism 447 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,120 or the used beds of mercury or 448 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:08,960 whatever, which has been showing 449 00:12:08,960 --> 00:12:10,640 up a lot in the lighthouses that 450 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:11,920 I've been looking at the beds of 451 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:12,360 mercury. 452 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:13,240 It's not. 453 00:12:13,240 --> 00:12:14,320 I remember we were talking to 454 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:15,200 somebody who said that it 455 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:16,200 wasn't common. 456 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,000 And I was like, I don't know. 457 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:19,600 I've just been hearing a lot. 458 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,640 Yeah, I've seen those pop up a 459 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:21,960 lot. 460 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:24,000 So I think we were talking 461 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,280 specifically about maybe I'll 462 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:27,240 learn some more things. 463 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,800 But Fred Stonehouse, isn't it? 464 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:30,160 Yeah. 465 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,080 Author's name. 466 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:32,480 He had him on the podcast. 467 00:12:32,480 --> 00:12:35,640 We were talking about standard 468 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,200 rock on Lake Superior. 469 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:39,360 I think we were talking mostly 470 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:40,200 about Lake Superior 471 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:41,280 Lighthouses. 472 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,000 I think his comment was 473 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,280 suggesting that there are not 474 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,720 mercury beds used on those 475 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,000 lighthouses and maybe. 476 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:50,520 I don't know, maybe that's local 477 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,280 or maybe there's hit or miss. 478 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:53,640 That would make sense just 479 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:56,160 because they're smaller lenses, 480 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,280 just like usually fourth order 481 00:12:58,280 --> 00:12:59,480 on lakes and stuff. 482 00:12:59,480 --> 00:12:59,720 Yeah. 483 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:01,360 And so maybe work would be fine. 484 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:01,720 Yeah. 485 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,000 You wouldn't you wouldn't have 486 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,080 to work quite so hard in order 487 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,840 to make it rotate where the 488 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:09,400 mercury bed was basically so 489 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,560 that it could smoothly rotate 490 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:13,560 without putting so much pressure 491 00:13:13,560 --> 00:13:16,000 on or having a huge clockwork 492 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,640 come off the grease. 493 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,960 Yeah, exactly. 494 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,400 So, yeah, it's basically. 495 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:23,680 Oh, cool. 496 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:24,040 I'm sorry. 497 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,120 I'm pointing at the screen now, 498 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:26,640 too, without saying anything. 499 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:28,000 There's on the wall in this 500 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:28,960 image we're looking at, there's 501 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,160 a focus light. 502 00:13:30,160 --> 00:13:31,720 I don't know if it's 503 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:33,480 just coming through or. 504 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,880 I'm thinking there's probably 505 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:35,960 a light on the inside that's 506 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:37,400 showing, but it's showing up 507 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:39,200 as a big bullseye on the wall. 508 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:39,440 Yeah. 509 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:40,560 And then stretched out 510 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:41,480 many feet tall. 511 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:42,520 So cool. 512 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:43,200 Cool. 513 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:43,480 Yeah. 514 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:45,080 So basically this rotates 515 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:46,600 and the flashes that you see 516 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,680 from the Fresnel lens are 517 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:50,920 the light focusing through 518 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:52,120 this bullseye. 519 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,600 So in between them, 520 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,080 you would still see the light, 521 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:56,840 but it's focused whenever you 522 00:13:56,840 --> 00:13:58,000 hit that bullseye lens. 523 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,640 So you'd be able to see that 524 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:00,920 there's it's not like 525 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,360 the flashing lens like this. 526 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:04,680 It's not like you would see no 527 00:14:04,680 --> 00:14:05,760 light at all at the top 528 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:06,800 of the lighthouse. 529 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:07,440 And then all of a sudden, 530 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:08,120 there's this brilliant 531 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:08,800 flash of light. 532 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,920 It's like there's light up there 533 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:12,920 and then a focused beam. 534 00:14:12,920 --> 00:14:15,160 And the focus beams come out 535 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,640 perpendicular from the face 536 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:18,200 of each of these flat faces. 537 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:19,240 Yeah. 538 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,480 So what's the material 539 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:21,680 in between that joins them? 540 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:23,080 You told me this time ago. 541 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:24,160 Brass. 542 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,880 So brass joins the panels 543 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:27,360 of glass together. 544 00:14:27,360 --> 00:14:30,120 Right. Because I'm not sure. 545 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,600 I don't know why either. 546 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:32,480 There's got to be some reason. 547 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:33,600 I know brass is expensive. 548 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:34,560 Maybe there's some property. 549 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:35,400 We haven't got to be. 550 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,880 Yeah, because I'm thinking 551 00:14:37,880 --> 00:14:39,120 for lenses have got to get 552 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,000 really hot, don't they? 553 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:42,280 Or maybe it does. 554 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:44,280 I feel like but then any focused 555 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:45,720 light is really hot. 556 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:46,680 Yeah. 557 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,520 But I also read that light 558 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,200 doesn't lose energy 559 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,440 moving through a prism. 560 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:52,800 So would it get hot? 561 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,000 Technically, I don't think so. 562 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,240 But if there are any media. 563 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:00,240 Well, we talked about 564 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:02,160 lighthouse keepers have cleaned. 565 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:03,360 Yeah, there's no way. 566 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,080 Religiously cleaned it, probably. 567 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:06,040 If there's any media 568 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:07,280 that would that would hinder it, 569 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,040 it would make it darker, 570 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,080 but also pick up heat. 571 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,080 Yeah. But then they would also 572 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:11,120 probably clean it 573 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:12,920 during the day when it's not on. 574 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:14,000 Yeah. 575 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,400 Because a lot of Fresnel lenses, 576 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:16,520 you have to open them 577 00:15:16,520 --> 00:15:17,440 to get to the light. 578 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:19,880 There's like a panel that opens 579 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,000 or like I'm about to show 580 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,880 a clamshell or bivalve. 581 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,160 And those just open 582 00:15:25,160 --> 00:15:29,000 just two sides like a like a book. 583 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:29,800 Cool. 584 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,000 OK, so this is a bivalve 585 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:34,640 or a clamshell lens. 586 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:36,360 So if we ever talk about bivalve 587 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,440 or clamshell, the same thing. 588 00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,000 It basically is just two 589 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,080 very large bullseyes 590 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,000 across from each other. 591 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,080 And the light goes in the middle. 592 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,280 So you'd have two flashes 593 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,600 when it does, when it finishes 594 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,080 an entire rotation. 595 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:49,680 And that's it. 596 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:51,760 So this first picture is 597 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:52,920 from the lighthouse 598 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,040 that we're talking about today. 599 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:54,800 Absolutely gorgeous. 600 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:56,880 That's a three and a half order. 601 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:58,080 An awesome picture. 602 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,520 And that was in 1989. 603 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,000 So it's kind of fantastic. 604 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,960 Very, very good photo. 605 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:04,760 But yeah, so that just opens 606 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:06,080 those are beautiful from the side. 607 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:07,440 It's like there's a hinge on one side. 608 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,120 I mean, just like 609 00:16:09,120 --> 00:16:10,320 crack it open like a book 610 00:16:10,320 --> 00:16:11,160 to get to the. 611 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:11,800 Yeah. 612 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,600 If you more often like there 613 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:15,840 a long time ago when there was 614 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:17,000 flame on the inside, 615 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,320 you'd have to open it often 616 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,400 to light it or clean it 617 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:21,800 or refill the oil 618 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:22,720 or something like that. 619 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:24,840 So these were very easy 620 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:25,800 to get access to, 621 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,000 but it would require a lot of weight 622 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:28,920 on this hinge. 623 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:30,360 And so, you know, 624 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:31,120 the hardware is going 625 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:31,960 to be really impressive. 626 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:33,120 Yeah, exactly. 627 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:34,800 Because it can't imagine 628 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,360 it fails in your 629 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:38,880 very expensive, very important. 630 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:39,600 Yeah. 631 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,600 And then the lights down 632 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:41,520 for a long time. 633 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:43,480 That's a no go. 634 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:46,520 A lot of pressure under pressure. 635 00:16:46,520 --> 00:16:47,920 Well, thank you. 636 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,480 And both of them have this bar 637 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:50,960 down the middle of the bulls eye. 638 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,040 Is that a structural? 639 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,360 It's got to be. 640 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:54,760 Yeah, like just because 641 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:56,280 there's so much weight. 642 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:59,040 You don't have multiple supports 643 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,600 like the other lenses. 644 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,840 These is just like 645 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:02,840 I feel like a lot of pressure 646 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:04,680 would be on this bulls eye lens. 647 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:06,200 And eventually they had to 648 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,520 add a little support in there. 649 00:17:07,520 --> 00:17:10,280 Technically, the very best shape 650 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:12,200 of any structure to 651 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,320 distribute stress is a circle 652 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:16,360 or well, technically a sphere. 653 00:17:16,360 --> 00:17:18,120 But a circle is a really good way 654 00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:19,320 a band, if you will, 655 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:20,320 to distribute stress 656 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:21,800 when designing something. 657 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,160 So that would allow them to. 658 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:25,520 I think they knew that at this time. 659 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:27,920 Yeah, that way. 660 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,320 Next one I'm showing is 661 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,280 group flashing, which is a 662 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,840 light characteristic. 663 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:33,840 I've also called this one 664 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:36,560 double bulls eye rock of ages. 665 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:38,680 Yeah, I don't know what that is. 666 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:39,720 Find out. 667 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,040 Start point England. 668 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:42,080 Oh, yeah, a lot of these are not 669 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:43,600 from within the US as well. 670 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,680 So I have some examples 671 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:45,960 that are not especially 672 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:46,880 because one of these lenses 673 00:17:46,880 --> 00:17:48,080 that I'm going to talk about, 674 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,600 I don't think we have any in the US. 675 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,760 And so all the examples from Ireland. 676 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,440 But anyway, group flashing 677 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:56,960 just means that you see 678 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:58,920 more than one flash 679 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:01,040 before there's the eclipse. 680 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,680 So you'll see two fast flashes 681 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,000 and then a moment 682 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:06,920 where there's no flashing. 683 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,000 So other lenses rotating probably. 684 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:09,920 It's exactly what it sounds like. 685 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:10,680 Group flashing. 686 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:11,200 You see more. 687 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:12,440 There's a group of flashes 688 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:14,160 and then a period of darkness. 689 00:18:14,160 --> 00:18:15,160 So the way that this affects 690 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,800 the Fresnel lens is that 691 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:17,840 you can't have the lens 692 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,960 separated evenly 693 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:20,720 by bullseyes. 694 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,640 You have to have them 695 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:22,520 smashed together, 696 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:23,360 which is how you end up 697 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:24,720 with a double bullseye. 698 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:27,280 Basically like a nucleus, 699 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:30,520 like of two bullseyes. 700 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:31,360 Two little eyes 701 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:31,880 smacked together. 702 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:32,920 It looks like an owl's face. 703 00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:35,200 Yeah, like a fish. 704 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,240 So this one on the left would be 705 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:39,960 two equivalent flashes, 706 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:40,640 it looks like. 707 00:18:40,640 --> 00:18:42,160 And on the right, 708 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,720 I'm looking at a half circle 709 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:44,560 and then a full circle. 710 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:46,920 So maybe if they were rotating 711 00:18:46,920 --> 00:18:48,520 a very fast flash 712 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:49,800 and then a longer flash, 713 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:50,640 like I don't know 714 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,160 that it'd be faster. 715 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:54,840 It would be less bright, 716 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:56,600 I would guess. 717 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:57,080 I don't know. 718 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:57,960 Half full, half full. 719 00:18:57,960 --> 00:18:59,600 Maybe if I can find a video of it. 720 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:00,120 This is yeah. 721 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:00,680 And we're looking at 722 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:02,040 Start Point England. 723 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:02,840 Yeah. 724 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:03,840 Yeah, that's cool. 725 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:05,240 I've never we've looked at 726 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,560 Fresnel lenses many times 727 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:07,440 for this podcast, 728 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:08,920 and I've never really paid 729 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:09,760 this much attention. 730 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:11,000 Yeah, it's very cool. 731 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:13,240 And plus this this one's neat 732 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:14,720 because it's not it's in a very 733 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:16,480 irregular shape of lens. 734 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,640 There's no it's not symmetrical 735 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:20,160 or anything. 736 00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:21,760 It's very I guess actually 737 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:23,200 the double the first picture 738 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:24,520 is symmetrical, 739 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:25,400 but it's goofy. 740 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:25,920 Yeah. 741 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,960 Also, group flashing is 742 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:29,960 the lens that was in 743 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:31,040 Point Arena Lighthouse, 744 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:31,760 which is the last one 745 00:19:31,760 --> 00:19:33,320 that I covered. 746 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:34,640 This is the one that I was talking 747 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,240 about that's in Ireland. 748 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:37,800 Two very cool examples, 749 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,880 one of them very old, 750 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:41,040 a first order by form lens, 751 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,840 which sounds like what we talked 752 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,000 about for Sweden by form. 753 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:47,800 Oh, yeah. 754 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:49,480 But I'm not sure exactly 755 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:50,480 how that would have worked 756 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:51,920 because one of them was fixed 757 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:53,480 and one of them was rotating. 758 00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,200 So it must not have been like this. 759 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,040 It probably just in translation 760 00:19:58,040 --> 00:19:59,720 probably still meant two lights. 761 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,440 But anyway, by form is two 762 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:03,680 Fresnel lenses stacked 763 00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,040 on top of each other 764 00:20:05,040 --> 00:20:07,160 and then usually rotating. 765 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:08,840 And so what what's the purpose? 766 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:10,440 You'd have to flash. 767 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:12,960 It's just one flash you would see, 768 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:15,360 but it's twice as intense or 769 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:17,200 it is colors at once. 770 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,320 It's interesting because I'm 771 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,000 I'm not. 772 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,800 Totally sure if it's to make more light 773 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:24,760 or if it's like if you have a tall ship 774 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:25,600 and a little ship, 775 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:29,120 maybe it'd be easier to see for both. 776 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:30,160 I'm not really sure 777 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:32,200 because it's not like you'd see two beams. 778 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:34,960 Well, a light comes from a point, right? 779 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:36,200 So from any lighthouse, 780 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:37,080 it comes from the point, 781 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,200 which is the lighthouse is the source. 782 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,000 So if you wanted it to be 783 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,960 brighter, this might be one of the options 784 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:46,400 because you can't put lights 785 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,240 next to each other. 786 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:49,120 They would contradict in one plane 787 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:49,600 or the other. 788 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,160 One would block the other. 789 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:52,160 True revolving. 790 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:52,480 Yeah. 791 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,040 So if there were one on top of the other, 792 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:55,440 they would never be blocked. 793 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,040 Right. 794 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:58,080 And they'd both be visible. 795 00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,640 But I think you would actually 796 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:00,920 have two light sources. 797 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:01,520 I don't think. 798 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:02,480 Yeah, definitely. 799 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,440 And one bulb or one flame would. 800 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:06,320 And any time they have stacked 801 00:21:06,320 --> 00:21:07,120 lenses like this, 802 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:09,240 there's a floor in between them 803 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,120 for people to stand on 804 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:11,440 so you can access the top 805 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:12,840 and the bottom lens. 806 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:14,160 Anyways, this is really neat. 807 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,280 Yeah. And the second one. 808 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:16,200 The same lens. 809 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:17,120 No, these are different. 810 00:21:17,120 --> 00:21:20,080 This was, I think. 811 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:20,880 Ireland. 812 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,160 Really early on. 813 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,720 The second one is a current lens. 814 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:26,960 They're both clamshell lenses, 815 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:27,640 which I thought was cool. 816 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:28,080 Oh, cool. 817 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,200 A bi-form clamshell lens. 818 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:31,000 I feel like people are just 819 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:31,720 getting fancy at this point. 820 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:32,200 I know. 821 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:32,920 They're like, what can we do? 822 00:21:32,920 --> 00:21:33,880 That's different. 823 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:34,960 I'm going to put three of them 824 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,440 on top of one another. 825 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:37,680 We're going to make the whole tower 826 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:39,760 out of Fresnel lenses. 827 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:41,120 Yeah, I'm sad we don't have any 828 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:42,000 of these in the U.S. 829 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:42,560 Maybe we do. 830 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,280 And I just haven't been able to find any. 831 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,000 But so far, it's only been in Ireland 832 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,200 that I've seen some. 833 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,320 I followed one on Instagram. 834 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,920 It's called Old Head Lighthouse in Kinsale. 835 00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:54,520 I don't know. 836 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:55,680 But I followed them on Instagram. 837 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:57,360 They have some cool videos 838 00:21:57,360 --> 00:21:58,880 of the lens rotating. 839 00:21:58,880 --> 00:22:00,040 It's really neat. 840 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,800 And our last example is the group occulting lens. 841 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,800 This one was on the USLA, 842 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:07,960 just doesn't have a location on it. 843 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,520 So I'm not sure where it was from. 844 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:11,880 But I thought this was really cool 845 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:14,960 because it's I can't tell 846 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,640 if this panel that's in between 847 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,280 the two lights is see through 848 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,640 or if it's brass like brass to me. 849 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,360 Yeah, I think I think you're right. 850 00:22:25,360 --> 00:22:26,960 It's like a surprised owl. 851 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:29,800 Yeah, he's like, whoa. 852 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,240 But yeah, basically, 853 00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:33,040 what we're looking at is 854 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,720 there's a bullseye that's interrupted by 855 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:37,880 it is basically like they took out 856 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:39,800 a panel of the Fresnel lens 857 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,160 and put in some brass. 858 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,640 So you would actually not see any light 859 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,520 from this angle whenever the panel moved by. 860 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:48,400 And that's another thing I saw 861 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:50,680 with flashing lights is that occasionally 862 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,160 they would have a fixed Fresnel lens 863 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,080 and then would have a rotating 864 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:00,640 like mechanism around the outside of metal plates. 865 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,200 And so it would as it rotated, 866 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:05,080 you'd see these moments of darkness 867 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:06,520 where there was a metal plate 868 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,600 crossing over your line of vision. 869 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:10,680 And so they would simulate 870 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,520 having a flashing Fresnel lens by 871 00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:13,680 having this rotating, 872 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:15,240 which I think would be a lot cheaper. 873 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:17,360 So, yeah, well, it'd be a lot easier 874 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:19,920 to have a smaller item rotate than the larger. 875 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,400 Definitely. And also like 876 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,680 way back in the day before Fresnel lenses, 877 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:26,880 I can't remember the name of it, 878 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:28,560 but there was a reflective plate 879 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,640 that would go behind a candle 880 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:32,920 or whatever the light source was a lamp 881 00:23:33,120 --> 00:23:34,680 and the plate would be what moved 882 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,600 in the same the same fashion. Yeah. 883 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,280 Much dimmer than our 884 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:41,800 current Fresnel lenses. 885 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,360 But it's the same concept. 886 00:23:43,360 --> 00:23:44,560 That's cool. Yeah. 887 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,440 And occulting, we've covered this, 888 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,600 but occulting just means that there are 889 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:51,080 moments of darkness, like, you know, 890 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,120 a flashing lens is usually like it's dark 891 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,280 and then there's a bright flashlight 892 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:55,320 and then it goes dark again. 893 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,600 But this one's like it's mostly lit 894 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,480 and then small moments of darkness 895 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:00,640 and then lit again. 896 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,080 And it's different than if you were looked at. 897 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,520 Well, if you looked 898 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:08,080 at a nearby light lighthouse 899 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:10,480 and you could see a constant light 900 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,920 and then a flash, the flash 901 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:14,360 is obviously the concentrated 902 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:17,200 Fresnel panel, but the constant light 903 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,880 is meaning that it's not technically 904 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,400 occulting because it's not blocked 905 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:21,800 by something. Exactly. 906 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:22,840 Yeah. And that's all of it. 907 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,480 I have one more picture. 908 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,400 This is where I'm going to complain. 909 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,720 Did I? So you remember the other day 910 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:29,480 when I told you 911 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,640 that the worst thing in the world 912 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:32,560 just happened to me 913 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:33,840 and I was going to tell you about it later. 914 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,160 Yeah, but you couldn't tell me at the time. 915 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:36,800 Yeah. This is what it is. 916 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,320 Yes. Where this light is somewhere 917 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:40,240 where you already have been. 918 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,520 Yes. I in Hawaii. 919 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:45,240 My mom said. 920 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:47,920 Oh, you get to pick. 921 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:48,840 I got to say her name. 922 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:49,680 Oh, mom. 923 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,280 You get to pick any lighthouse, 924 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:55,440 just one that the whole family will go to. 925 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,200 And I was like, oh, we'll just go to 926 00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,120 Barber's Point. 927 00:24:59,120 --> 00:25:00,680 It's it was the closest to us. 928 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,400 You didn't have to hike to get there. 929 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,640 This one had like a total 930 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:05,880 of two hours of hiking, 931 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:07,160 which would have been fine. 932 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,200 And the drive was maybe an hour 933 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:10,160 away from our Airbnb. 934 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:11,640 So, you know, all together, 935 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,880 I would have been inconveniencing 936 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,000 my family more by deciding 937 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:14,880 to go to this lighthouse. 938 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:17,280 But what you're looking at 939 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,520 is the only hyper radial lens 940 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,880 that is in the US in Hawaii. 941 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,240 And I was I was a singular 942 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,280 self made decision away 943 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,800 from seeing it because it's still there. 944 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,400 It's still the functioning 945 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:37,440 hyper radiant lens. 946 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,280 And I just missed out. 947 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,560 I just I just missed out. 948 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,800 I decided to not go. 949 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,200 I have to go back to Hawaii. 950 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,200 It's so awful. 951 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,520 I was just so close. 952 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:52,280 And so for those watching the video, 953 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:53,920 I have pictures up of 954 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:55,480 the little lighthouse. 955 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:56,480 It's on the edge of a cliff, 956 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:57,560 which is why it's so short 957 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:59,240 and cute and stout. 958 00:25:59,240 --> 00:26:01,280 And the next picture 959 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,520 is a little bit of a close 960 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,360 up of the lens 961 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:05,200 in the lighthouse. 962 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:05,960 And then the one after that 963 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:06,800 is an older picture 964 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:08,760 of before it was put in. 965 00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,800 And there's a man standing next to it. 966 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,240 This lens is 12 feet tall, 967 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,800 12 tons in weight. 968 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,320 It's pretty damn big. 969 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:21,240 Honestly, most explicit 970 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,040 lighthouse podcast on the Internet. 971 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:25,720 I I won't get over this 972 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,880 for a long time that I was a 973 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,200 a decision of my own away 974 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,480 from seeing the only hyper 975 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,640 radiant lens in the US. 976 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,200 And I said no. 977 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:38,560 It's 12 tons in weight. 978 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:39,360 Yeah. 979 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:41,360 24,000 pounds. 980 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,400 I don't know how tall that guy is, 981 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:45,440 but it's probably 982 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:48,760 12 feet across diameter. 983 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:49,760 12 feet tall. 984 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:52,240 So he's probably a little short. 985 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:53,360 He's not quite six foot. 986 00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:54,360 Including the like. 987 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:55,360 With his bowler hat. 988 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,840 Including the top. 989 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:58,960 I feel like it's about three times his height. 990 00:26:58,960 --> 00:26:59,960 That is insane. 991 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,080 So why? 992 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,000 Why is this a hyper radial? 993 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,280 Hawaii just wanted to flex 994 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,280 on the rest of the US. 995 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:06,280 They're like, you know what? 996 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,120 I think I'll cover this lighthouse, 997 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:09,120 I think. 998 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:10,920 OK, because it's very cool 999 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:12,400 that this lens is still in use 1000 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,200 and you have to hike to get there. 1001 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,200 This is not like you drive up to it. 1002 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:17,680 You have to hike. 1003 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:19,880 And so someone has to hike out here. 1004 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:20,880 It looks so cool. 1005 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:23,480 I know it looks like a glowing egg 1006 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:24,480 of possibilities. 1007 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,480 Is that a is that a modern beacon? 1008 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,560 Yeah, it looks like a flame, 1009 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:31,160 but I know it's it's got to be 1010 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,160 like an LED or something color. 1011 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,160 Oh, man, that's incredible. 1012 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:36,160 I'm so you missed out. 1013 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,160 You screwed that one up. 1014 00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:42,160 I had been more educated on the subject. 1015 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,160 I absolutely would have been like, 1016 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,160 we're driving, we're hiking, 1017 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,160 and this area where the the cliff 1018 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:49,160 that this lighthouse is on is beautiful. 1019 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,160 People do the hike, 1020 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:51,160 not for the lighthouse, 1021 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,160 to see the view. 1022 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,160 Oh, well, if only they knew, 1023 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,160 then they would do it. 1024 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,160 So for those who are traveling 1025 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:01,160 soon to Hawaii, which island is this? 1026 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,160 Oahu. 1027 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:03,160 Oahu has this one. 1028 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,160 We're going to cover it soon at some point. 1029 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,160 Oh, man. 1030 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,160 Yeah, live. 1031 00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,160 Please live better. 1032 00:28:08,160 --> 00:28:10,160 Make better choices than I did. 1033 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:11,160 Point Barber's pretty cool. 1034 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,160 That's the one you saw. 1035 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:13,160 Is that right? 1036 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:14,160 Yeah, it doesn't have 1037 00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:15,160 a lantern room anymore. 1038 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,160 And so it's kind of a. 1039 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,160 This is so cool. 1040 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:23,160 I just can't believe. 1041 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,160 I mean, Barber's Point is good. 1042 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,160 All lighthouses are special 1043 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:27,160 and wonderful in their own ways. 1044 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,160 But I really. 1045 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:32,160 The big one. 1046 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,160 Past self screwed my my present self over. 1047 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:36,160 Have to go back. 1048 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:37,160 I will. I know. 1049 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,160 Now I have to. 1050 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,160 So this is the way I can get you to go hiking. 1051 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:42,160 Yes, 100 percent. 1052 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,160 All right. Noted. 1053 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,160 I would 100 percent have hiked that. 1054 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,160 Goodness gracious. 1055 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,160 OK, so we're going to move on. 1056 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,160 This is the end of our 1057 00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:52,160 the longest history really of all time 1058 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,160 and going to move on to our lighthouse, 1059 00:28:54,160 --> 00:28:56,160 which what we're covering today is Montauk 1060 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,160 Point in New York. 1061 00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,160 I've heard of it. 1062 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,160 New York. 1063 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,160 New York. 1064 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,160 I don't know. 1065 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,160 Pretty sure there's a song that 1066 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,160 I wanted you to take it off from. 1067 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:09,160 That might be Frank Sinatra. 1068 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,160 I'm not sure. 1069 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,160 I just know about it from Madagascar. 1070 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,160 Anyway, so Montauk Point Lighthouse. 1071 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,160 People say that if you were only 1072 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,160 to ever see one lighthouse in your entire 1073 00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,160 life, this would be the one to go to. 1074 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,160 Mm hmm. 1075 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,160 That's what they say. 1076 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,160 So not Boston Harbor Light, 1077 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,160 not Hatteras, Cape Hatteras. 1078 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:30,160 Honestly, this one's pretty old too. 1079 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,160 It's it's a triangle. 1080 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,160 It's basically it's like it's like the 1081 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:37,160 first lighthouse you would see as a 1082 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,160 immigrant or a settler coming from Europe. 1083 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,160 And so it was kind of like, you know, it 1084 00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,160 has a lot of history and the Statue of 1085 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,160 Liberty. 1086 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,160 Well, you'd see that one after. 1087 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:48,160 I'll show you a map of what it looks like. 1088 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:49,160 I thought I had you. 1089 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,160 No, you thought you had me. 1090 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,160 I'm the owner of this podcast, 1091 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:58,160 but I'm usually I'm often wrong, so I 1092 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,160 can't say that anyway. 1093 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,160 So I will show you. 1094 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,160 That's really cool. 1095 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:04,160 It's very nice. 1096 00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:05,160 That's legitimate. 1097 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,160 Aesthetically pleasing and all these rocks 1098 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:08,160 that they have down there. 1099 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,160 Three car garage. 1100 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,160 Three car garage. 1101 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:11,160 Oh, wow. 1102 00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,160 I didn't notice that. 1103 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,160 So the point. 1104 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,160 I'll show you a map a little bit later. 1105 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,160 It was originally named Turtle Hill or 1106 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,160 maybe it's still called Turtle Hill. 1107 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,160 The point it's Montauk Point, 1108 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,160 but I think the land that the lighthouse 1109 00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:28,160 is built on is Turtle Hill. 1110 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,160 I haven't really been able to figure out 1111 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,160 if it's still Turtle Hill or if it's, you 1112 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,160 know, or if it was renamed to Montauk 1113 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:36,160 Point. 1114 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,160 But either way, the point is named after 1115 00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,160 the local tribe of Montauk Indians or 1116 00:30:41,160 --> 00:30:42,160 Montaukette. 1117 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:43,160 I don't know. 1118 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,160 There was a couple of different names for 1119 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:46,160 the tribe. 1120 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,160 So I'll just go with Montauk Indians. 1121 00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:50,160 The tribe was part of a confederation of 1122 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,160 four different tribes, and each of these 1123 00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:55,160 tribes were led by four brothers. 1124 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,160 And so it's kind of a cool story, but 1125 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,160 their dad was a chief who was like 1126 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,160 highly respected. 1127 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,160 And so they 1128 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,160 inherited authority and respect from 1129 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:10,160 other people and decided to separate 1130 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160 into these four tribes that met for like 1131 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:14,160 like a democracy. 1132 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:15,160 That's cool. 1133 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:16,160 Yeah. 1134 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,160 And they controlled a large majority of 1135 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:20,160 Long Island when European settlers came 1136 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,160 in the 17th century. 1137 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,160 And here's a breakup of the Native 1138 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,160 American tribes, like what land they 1139 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,160 controlled. 1140 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:30,160 And so Montaukette is down there. 1141 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:32,160 This is Long Island, and there's a part 1142 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,160 of it that's controlled by Montauk. 1143 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,160 And that's the point at the very, very 1144 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,160 tip of this section that's controlled by 1145 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,160 the Montauk Indians is Montauk. 1146 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,160 Towards Block Island. 1147 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:42,160 Yeah. 1148 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,160 Which is another lighthouse. 1149 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:44,160 What? 1150 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,160 Block Island lighthouse. 1151 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:46,160 Oh, cool. 1152 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:47,160 Pretty sure. 1153 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:48,160 Cool. 1154 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:49,160 Montaukette. 1155 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,160 Oh, pretty sure it's on the list. 1156 00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:52,160 I think it is. 1157 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,160 Oh, yeah, that's exciting. 1158 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:58,160 Well, I'm looking at Cape Cod over here. 1159 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,160 Plymouth, Boston, they're all on the map. 1160 00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,160 It's a big lighthouse area. 1161 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Yeah. 1162 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,160 Heavy in lighthouses. 1163 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:09,160 So but actually, you know, the 1164 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,160 settlers came in 17th century. 1165 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,160 Besides the building of the lighthouse, 1166 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:15,160 this area remained largely untouched by 1167 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:17,160 colonists until close to the 1900s. 1168 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,160 So, yeah, it's like we built the lighthouse, 1169 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,160 but it wasn't populated with a bunch of people. 1170 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,160 It was still. 1171 00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:25,160 That's surprising to me. 1172 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,160 I thought this was the first populated area 1173 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:27,160 of the U.S. 1174 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,160 Yeah, and it's just because it was Long Island. 1175 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:32,160 You know, it became populated further away, 1176 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,160 but since it was all out here, yeah, you're 1177 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,160 kind of, we didn't have a need for. 1178 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:38,160 Now it's pretty packed these days. 1179 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:39,160 Yeah. 1180 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:43,160 Isn't Long Island like really rich area? 1181 00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:45,160 It has some good iced tea out there. 1182 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,160 I cannot. 1183 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,160 I can't turn down a long. 1184 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:50,160 I'm so funny. 1185 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,160 I think from what I understand, it's kind of 1186 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,160 a escape from the city. 1187 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,160 And I think it's a very wealthy area. 1188 00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:58,160 That's nice. 1189 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,160 For people who can afford to have homes out there as well. 1190 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:03,160 That's my assumption. 1191 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:05,160 I've never been over big, nice houses. 1192 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,160 Yeah. 1193 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,160 But actually, land only changed hands. 1194 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,160 This land only changed hands three times in 300 years. 1195 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:14,160 So. 1196 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,160 Okay. 1197 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,160 Changed hands from Native Americans to settlers. 1198 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,160 Yeah. 1199 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,160 And on and on. 1200 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:26,160 But, you know, from 1655 to 1926, it only changed hands three times. 1201 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,160 So according to legend, the natives would light 1202 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,160 fires on the tip of this point, a Montauk point, 1203 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,160 to summon chiefs and warriors to council. 1204 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:35,160 Awesome. 1205 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:38,160 And following that in the Revolutionary War, 1206 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:42,160 the British would light large bonfires at the end 1207 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,160 of the point to signal to their warships. 1208 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,160 So naturally, the next beacon that would be placed on this point 1209 00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,160 would be in the exact same spot. 1210 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,160 And that's Montauk Point Lighthouse. 1211 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:53,160 That's awesome. 1212 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:54,160 Yeah. 1213 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,160 So it was used as a, not a lighthouse, but a beacon. 1214 00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:58,160 Yeah. 1215 00:33:58,160 --> 00:33:59,160 It was, yeah, definitely. 1216 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:00,160 Before the lighthouse. 1217 00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,160 That's really neat. 1218 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,160 Yep. 1219 00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160 So in 1792, so we're going far back, not as far back as like 1220 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:10,160 Boston Light, but only like 80 years after that or something. 1221 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,160 George Washington himself authorized the building of this lighthouse 1222 00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:18,160 due to the danger of the land posed to getting to the main ports. 1223 00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,160 And so here's a picture, a Google image of the land. 1224 00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:26,160 You can see New York, you know, where the Statue of Liberty is. 1225 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,160 You have to pass this. 1226 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:30,160 You know, Long Island is kind of like if you're coming in, 1227 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:33,160 you would see Montauk Point Lighthouse before you would see 1228 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,160 Statue of Liberty are coming in. 1229 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,160 It's not that it's more important. 1230 00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,160 It's just that this is the indicator that you have a turning 1231 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:43,160 where you either go into the sound or you're going up to Newport 1232 00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,160 or you come to New York City. 1233 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,160 That's kind of where it tells you. 1234 00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,160 The builders made it like a fortress. 1235 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:54,160 I don't know what happened, but the lowest bidder was selected. 1236 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,160 I believe it was $22,000 at this time. 1237 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,160 That's a ton of money. 1238 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:02,160 They built the foundation 13 feet deep. 1239 00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:05,160 I was like, what? 1240 00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:07,160 It's just an unbelievable amount of effort put in. 1241 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,160 It's a lot of concrete. 1242 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,160 For being the lowest bidder. 1243 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,160 And this is 1790 something. 1244 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:14,160 Yeah, 1792. 1245 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,160 That's significant. 1246 00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,160 I mean, today, if you said 13 foot of concrete for a foundation, 1247 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,160 I'd be like, yeah, no problem. 1248 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,160 But you have some different methods. 1249 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:23,160 And it's in there. 1250 00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,160 I mean, you saw the picture earlier. 1251 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,160 It's right on the edge of the point. 1252 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,160 So it makes sense that they would be like, this needs a lot of support. 1253 00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,160 For the lowest bidder to put in that much effort. 1254 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:35,160 And George Washington himself said he's quoted being like, 1255 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:38,160 this lighthouse is going to last a couple of centuries. 1256 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:39,160 But you're like, whoa. 1257 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,160 Yeah, he's making some comment about the budget. 1258 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:43,160 Yeah, he's probably like, wow. 1259 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:46,160 He'd be right, because this lighthouse is still the original lighthouse 1260 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,160 that was built in the late 1700s. 1261 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,160 The same guy who built this lighthouse also built Cape Henry lighthouse, 1262 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,160 which is another one that I really want to cover. 1263 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,160 He built that in 1791. 1264 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,160 So just before he built this one. 1265 00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:02,160 And that one is still standing, even though it hasn't been touched 1266 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:03,160 in over a century. 1267 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,160 Where is it at? Cape Henry? 1268 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:08,160 Virginia. 1269 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:09,160 I should look it up. 1270 00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,160 But I didn't. 1271 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,160 I started looking into it and I was like, no, no. 1272 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,160 We are focused on one lighthouse right now. 1273 00:36:17,160 --> 00:36:20,160 Do not get confuddled by looking up other lighthouses. 1274 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,160 But yeah, you can still climb it, too. 1275 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,160 It's not like it's decrepit and still standing. 1276 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:26,160 It's like solid. 1277 00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:27,160 That's awesome. 1278 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:28,160 Anyway. 1279 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,160 Good for them. 1280 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,160 Yeah, I know that guy that guy should get a medal for his engineering 1281 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:36,160 strong lighthouses. 1282 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:41,160 Construction only took five months and it was lit November 5th, 1796. 1283 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,160 So four years away from the fast turn of the century. 1284 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,160 It was the first lighthouse in New York State. 1285 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,160 Proceeded a lot of new a lot of different lighthouses. 1286 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,160 But this is the first one. 1287 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:55,160 The tower is octagonal and made with red Connecticut sandstone. 1288 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,160 It was originally 78 feet tall and all white. 1289 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,160 But as you saw in the picture now, it has a red band around it. 1290 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,160 That happened in 1899. 1291 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:09,160 So that was 100 years after it was originally built that they changed its day 1292 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,160 mark. 1293 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,160 Here's what it originally looked like. 1294 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:18,160 This picture was in 1884, which is the earliest photo I found in the US. 1295 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,160 I'm sure there's earlier ones, but 1884. 1296 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:26,160 I think the earliest picture I had seen from them was 1899. 1297 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:31,160 I think that must have been incredible at the time to take a photo, to build 1298 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,160 that the photo as well. 1299 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,160 Look at the foghorn coming out of the. 1300 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,160 Oh, yeah. 1301 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:41,160 The foghorn looks like it's several feet, like a tall as that guy coming out of 1302 00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:47,160 the I assume that's where the steam whistle or foghorn is that anyway. 1303 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:52,160 The first head keeper was 64 year old Jacob Hand. 1304 00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:56,160 So he should be retiring and he's not. 1305 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:03,160 And he got the job on the stipulation that his grandson Jared would help him as 1306 00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:05,160 an assistant keeper without getting paid. 1307 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:07,160 It was like a package deal. 1308 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:08,160 Yeah. 1309 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,160 To two in the family for one price. 1310 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:11,160 Yeah. 1311 00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,160 So Jacob served for 16 years. 1312 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:17,160 This guy was 80 by the time he decided to stop being a lighthouse keeper. 1313 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,160 Really impressive. 1314 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,160 You think about your grandpa. 1315 00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,160 No. 1316 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,160 Climbing the lighthouse several times a day. 1317 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,160 It's just mind blowing. 1318 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,160 I can't especially back then. 1319 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,160 Sixty four was not the 64 that it is today. 1320 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,160 No. 1321 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:36,160 And I want to know what he did all that time to be 64 and still be physically 1322 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:40,160 able to do all this hard work for 16 years. 1323 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:41,160 It's crazy. 1324 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,160 Crazy. 1325 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:48,160 But he suggested around being 80 that Jared take over the running of the 1326 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:53,160 lighthouse and President Thomas Jefferson said no because he was like I 1327 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,160 don't want lighthouse keepers to be hereditary. 1328 00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,160 I don't want this to be a job where you pass it on to your son and nobody 1329 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,160 else can do it. 1330 00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,160 It's like he's going to have to apply like everybody else. 1331 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:08,160 But naturally Jared's been working at the lighthouse as a keeper for 16 years 1332 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,160 of his life. 1333 00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,160 It's a pretty good resume for the job application. 1334 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,160 Yeah. 1335 00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,160 So naturally he beat out everybody and became headkeeper. 1336 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,160 It's just a natural turn of events. 1337 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,160 Well good. 1338 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:21,160 I mean it's good that they actually did a job. 1339 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,160 I don't know what it looked like at that time but a job hunt. 1340 00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,160 You know they posted on LinkedIn. 1341 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:26,160 Yeah. 1342 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,160 You had to fill out the application. 1343 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,160 No nepotism. 1344 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,160 Had to do a security check. 1345 00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:32,160 Yeah. 1346 00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,160 Background check. 1347 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:34,160 Credit check. 1348 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,160 So that was in 1812 when he took over the station already like in this picture 1349 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,160 you can see there's a couple of buildings. 1350 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,160 Three and then the foghorn building. 1351 00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,160 I spy four. 1352 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,160 I meant three and the foghorn. 1353 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,160 Oh oh excuse me. 1354 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:49,160 Excuse me. 1355 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,160 Again once again I thought I had you. 1356 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,160 So I was going to complain because I was reading online that there was so many 1357 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:56,160 keepers dwellings. 1358 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:59,160 It was like they built a new one every 10 years or something. 1359 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,160 I'm like where are these buildings coming from? 1360 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:07,160 But I think originally when they said there were three keepers dwellings around 1361 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:13,160 this I think what they're referring to are there were three buildings. 1362 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:18,160 They were the oldest buildings in New York or something like built in the 1700s 1363 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,160 and they were for livestock. 1364 00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:25,160 So people this land you could bring your livestock to graze and then take them 1365 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,160 back. 1366 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:31,160 And so there were buildings where keepers would tend to the livestock and watch 1367 00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,160 over the livestock. 1368 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:36,160 But they weren't lighthouse keepers. 1369 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:37,160 They were livestock keepers. 1370 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,160 And so I think that's where I got confused. 1371 00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:41,160 I was like why is there so many keepers cottages? 1372 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,160 And it was for a different purpose. 1373 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:48,160 Anyway so I was going to say like they had all these keepers dwellings and they 1374 00:40:48,160 --> 00:40:52,160 built another one in 1837 that was six rooms. 1375 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:57,160 And I was like there's no official assistant keeper until 20 years after that. 1376 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,160 So I was like why do they keep building light? 1377 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,160 Keepers cottages. 1378 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,160 But I think that's what it comes from. 1379 00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:09,160 And Montauk Historical Society they have a page on I think it's called second 1380 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:10,160 house. 1381 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,160 I feel like I should have second house. 1382 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,160 Yeah I feel like I should have done more research on that. 1383 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:21,160 But that there was three houses and the second house is the one that's closest to 1384 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:25,160 this and the historical society is in charge of keeping that. 1385 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:29,160 So they have a whole page on it of it being the oldest standing building from 1386 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:30,160 whenever. 1387 00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,160 So I didn't do a lot of looking deep into that but you can. 1388 00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:38,160 I think I'm going to put in our show notes the historical society page you can 1389 00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,160 go take a look at it yourself. 1390 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,160 So sorry I'm looking at the image still. 1391 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,160 So there's one built in 1837 that's a six bedroom. 1392 00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,160 So I think that's the dark building. 1393 00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:49,160 It must be. 1394 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:50,160 Yeah. 1395 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:53,160 And then I was looking at this the chimney on this white building is enormous. 1396 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,160 Oh of course. 1397 00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:55,160 Steam. 1398 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,160 It's a steam. 1399 00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:57,160 It's a boiler. 1400 00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:58,160 Yeah. 1401 00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:02,160 I would that make sense where those chimneys over on the residential house are 1402 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:06,160 probably just fireplaces or yeah probably or oil houses. 1403 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:08,160 Yeah storage etc. 1404 00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:12,160 And then the rain that looks like there's a gutter that goes over to something. 1405 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,160 I wonder if it doesn't feed into the boiler building. 1406 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,160 That's good. 1407 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,160 I think that's a nice observation. 1408 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:19,160 I think you'd be right. 1409 00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,160 There's probably a cistern underneath the fog hard building. 1410 00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:23,160 Really cool. 1411 00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:26,160 It's impressive image for 1884. 1412 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,160 They probably had to stand there like that for a long time. 1413 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,160 The people in this picture. 1414 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:33,160 Remember it was like a flash and you had to not move for a long time. 1415 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,160 Yeah. 1416 00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,160 What is that called. 1417 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:37,160 Exposure photography. 1418 00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:38,160 I'm not sure. 1419 00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,160 I think it is 1880. 1420 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,160 I was born in 1995. 1421 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,160 It's crazy. 1422 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,160 This picture is 110 years older than you. 1423 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,160 And up there they've got a lighthouse or a lightning rod I think. 1424 00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:55,160 And one of my favorite parts of this lighthouse and they restored it to be exactly the same as it was in this picture. 1425 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:56,160 The balcony. 1426 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,160 Look at the thick X shaped balcony. 1427 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:03,160 It's just like a very fancy detailed balcony. 1428 00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:07,160 I wouldn't expect the lowest bidder to put so much effort. 1429 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,160 They're like we're going to be the lowest, best bidder. 1430 00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,160 They're like best foundation, best balcony. 1431 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,160 Also, I've never considered this until this moment. 1432 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,160 The balcony. 1433 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:20,160 Is that what it's the official? 1434 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,160 Well, gallery. 1435 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,160 I just did an episode covering what these are called. 1436 00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:30,160 So that thing you walk on is lower than the light room. 1437 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:34,160 Probably because if it was the same level you'd be in the beam of light. 1438 00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:35,160 No, look, there's another one. 1439 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,160 That's the lantern gallery. 1440 00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:45,160 And then there's the main gallery is below that where it's I was talking about it's in line with the storm room or the watch room. 1441 00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,160 Where the floor is inside the tower. 1442 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,160 Where the clockwork would be hung and such. 1443 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,160 Well, never mind. 1444 00:43:54,160 --> 00:44:00,160 You'd be right in that beam because you have to clean the glass outside of the lens too. 1445 00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:05,160 So it's powerful, full power. 1446 00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:12,160 The lighthouse got a first order Fresnel lens in 1857 as well as their new six room Keepers Cottage. 1447 00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:19,160 The lighthouse at that time at 78 feet was not tall enough to be considered a first class coastal light. 1448 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,160 Oh, too short. 1449 00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:21,160 Yeah, it's not. 1450 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,160 It wasn't tall enough. 1451 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:34,160 So around 1860, three years later, they increased the height of the lighthouse by 30 feet, which brings it to its final total, which is the same as today of 110.5 feet. 1452 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:35,160 Legitimate. 1453 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,160 Yeah. 1454 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:43,160 They increased the wooden steps, like leading up to the lantern room with iron and built another Keepers dwelling. 1455 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:50,160 And one of them is today, the museum that it's like highly rated, the coolest museum ever. 1456 00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:52,160 They always tell you to go to it, but I can't. 1457 00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:55,160 I don't know exactly which Keepers Cottage it's in. 1458 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,160 No one does. 1459 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,160 There's so many. 1460 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,160 They just built their own community out there, Long Island. 1461 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:10,160 All right. In 1903, the first order lens was replaced by the three and a half order by valve lens that I showed during the history buoy. 1462 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:11,160 So there's a nice picture of that. 1463 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,160 It was revolving and had a white flash every 15 seconds. 1464 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:20,160 And they also added a fourth order fixed red range lens in the lantern room. 1465 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,160 And it's basically just a fourth order lens. 1466 00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:34,160 And if you moved far enough to come in view of the red, it was saying that you were getting close to Shaguang Reef, which was three and a half miles from the lighthouse. 1467 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,160 I didn't do a lot of research on it, but its elevation is zero feet. 1468 00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:41,160 So basically it's like it's on the cusp of being an island. 1469 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:48,160 So as you'd be going around the lighthouse, you, the traveler on the boat, would come into a red light. 1470 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:52,160 Yeah. You'd see a red light appear, which means that you need to take caution. 1471 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:56,160 It would mean that you're, you're coming too close to. 1472 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:58,160 Because it's fourth order. It's only so powerful. 1473 00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,160 So you're within range and at that angle. 1474 00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,160 Yeah, exactly. 1475 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,160 That's really interesting. 1476 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:10,160 So you'd still see the flashing of the lighthouse, but if you went too far, too close to the point, then you would see this red light and have to. 1477 00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:12,160 I wonder if that's what was going on. 1478 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,160 That's what I was thinking. 1479 00:46:13,160 --> 00:46:14,160 At our lighthouse. 1480 00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:15,160 Oh my gosh. 1481 00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:19,160 I know. I remember us talking about it, but I don't know which lighthouse it was. 1482 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:20,160 It was in Sweden. 1483 00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,160 Lundsors. 1484 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:22,160 Oh yeah. 1485 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,160 Lundsors Sphere. 1486 00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:24,160 Right. 1487 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,160 Yeah. When the one I was talking about, maybe it was bi-form, but I don't think it was. 1488 00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,160 But they had a lower, like a window, I think. 1489 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,160 Yeah. 1490 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:32,160 We never got to get there. 1491 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:33,160 The little red light peeked through. 1492 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:36,160 So anyway, I thought that was really cool. I've never seen. 1493 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,160 No, I've never heard of that before. 1494 00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:39,160 Yeah. 1495 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:40,160 Here's a. 1496 00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,160 That's cool. 1497 00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,160 This was after the height was added, which is why I think the lantern room looks different. 1498 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:49,160 And they also have the reddish brown band that you see on it today. 1499 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:55,160 Did you see anything about them? How they added height? Did they build on top? Did they? 1500 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:56,160 They didn't build a new tower. 1501 00:46:56,160 --> 00:47:04,160 No, they built it from the top, I'm assuming. I think they probably added more, more of the sandstone bricks to the top. 1502 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:10,160 But they, what's the, there's a lot going on here. Is that a driving range down here on the left? 1503 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:11,160 Into the ocean? 1504 00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,160 Yeah. 1505 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:18,160 I don't know. Yeah. I remember them talking about building this tower. I think it was a war thing, like a world war. 1506 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:19,160 Okay. 1507 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:24,160 One or world war two thing that they built another tower that was for something. I don't know. 1508 00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,160 Could be. Yeah. It could just be better suited for people to be up there with different. 1509 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:34,160 This is a much later image, but I was going to show you this is the picture of the. 1510 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,160 That's the revolving lens. 1511 00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:40,160 Yeah. The bite, the, God, clamshell. Geez. 1512 00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:48,160 And then the picture next to it is, I think it's the picture, it came up in the US LHS in association with this lighthouse. 1513 00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:56,160 So I think this is the red fourth order lens I was talking about. And maybe it's in this casing so that you only see half of the lens. 1514 00:47:56,160 --> 00:48:03,160 You know, it's like, it's not projecting any beams towards our clamshell lens. That's right behind it. 1515 00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,160 It's probably, they focused all of it outwards. 1516 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:09,160 And it was below the clamshell lens. 1517 00:48:09,160 --> 00:48:12,160 It's probably just outside of it, like sitting on the ground over here. 1518 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,160 Cool. It was in the lantern room. 1519 00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,160 So, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Looks heavy duty. Man. 1520 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:30,160 I know the keeper at the time that they added these two new lights was James G Scott, who had the longest headkeeper stint at the station from 1885 to 1910. 1521 00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:34,160 So that's 35 years, I think. Oh, 25. 1522 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,160 Math is hard. 1523 00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:41,160 35. 15 plus 10 is 25. 35. 1524 00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:49,160 A couple of big schooner, oh God, I forgot to look at it. I did it too. Boats. What is it? Schooner. Yeah. 1525 00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:57,160 Crashes happened during his watch. Not that it was his fault, but he was there for 25 years. Something had to happen. 25 at least. 1526 00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:04,160 Yeah. And so he had two big crashes. One of them was carrying cocoa beans and one of them was carrying coconuts. 1527 00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:11,160 And this is the first time I've seen this. What? Nothing. I was going to push a wham wham button, but I decided not to because people might have died. 1528 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:15,160 Yeah, right. I don't think so. I think it probably would have mentioned that. It didn't. 1529 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:28,160 Cocoa beans and coconuts. The first thing that I noticed that the first time that I've noticed that if something crashes and stuff washes ashore, you just get to keep it. 1530 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:39,160 In both of these instances, they were like there was a crash and so then we had coconuts for a really long time and like we made tons of I'm like, you just kept it. 1531 00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:43,160 I don't know. Don't they want their stuff back? I don't know. 1532 00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:49,160 I think you'd you know, they lose, you know, they crash and they lose their boat. They'd want their stuff back, but they've been robbed. 1533 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:55,160 I don't know that there's a law or a rule on that in those times. You think it's like free. 1534 00:49:55,160 --> 00:50:01,160 I don't think it's free, but they have to come collect it. The owner has to come collect it. If they don't, then it's just waste. 1535 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:09,160 Yeah, especially both of those are perishable items. Yeah. So yeah, true. It's not like it's gold. They, you know, we're shipping. 1536 00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:17,160 Yeah. Yeah. So I just thought it was funny. They talked about after this, they created Montauk pudding, which is basically chocolate bread pudding. 1537 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:28,160 Sounds good. The cocoa beans and they said locals at the time said that if you visited somewhere for a year after this coconut crash, you were you would expect to have coconut cake for dessert at somebody's house. 1538 00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:33,160 Oh, my gosh. Everyone had the coconuts and they just were trying to get rid of them, but not throw them away. 1539 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:40,160 Yeah. And the locals held a contest after the coconuts washed up and they just kept them all. 1540 00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:46,160 I don't know. I just think it's so crazy that it's just like, oh, you crashed. I'm going to keep all of your good coconuts float. 1541 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:58,160 Yeah. Is that common? That's not common knowledge. But I would think they'd be in crates too. So yeah, I don't know the details of how this happened, but they ended up with all the coconuts. 1542 00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:08,160 And they said they held a contest to see, you know, like everyone made coconut something and they held a contest to see who would win the best coconut creation. 1543 00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:20,160 And the winner was a four tiered coconut cake that had coconut frosting and shredded coconut in the batter and the frosting and the layers. It was just like a coconut bonanza. 1544 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:28,160 That sounds awesome. I would love that. The same thing happened during the Prohibition era with Licker, allegedly. 1545 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:40,160 John E. Miller and John A. Miller, a father and son duo who were keepers at the lighthouse. They were head and first assistant keeper. They were suspected of collaborating with bootleggers. 1546 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:48,160 Oh, John. The Johns, double John. The Coast Guard heard of two grounded ships on the beach of the Point suspected of carrying illegal liquor. 1547 00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:55,160 And they called the Millers because they're in view of this beach. And they were like, are the ships there? And the Millers were like, no, no, there's no ships. 1548 00:51:55,160 --> 00:52:05,160 They must have gotten up and walked away, you know, slurring their words on the phone. They fixed it. 1549 00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:15,160 But so, however, the Coast Guard sent people to check it out. And there's two ships grounded on the beach, surrounded by liquor cases that were empty. 1550 00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:22,160 Oh, no. Yeah. They walked away clearly. And the Millers wouldn't return calls from the Coast Guard. 1551 00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:27,160 You would think the Coast Guard would just break down the door during Prohibition. Yeah. 1552 00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:35,160 But they didn't have any proof that it was just suspicious. They could. There's no proof or anything. So they just had to let it go. There's never anything brought out of this. 1553 00:52:35,160 --> 00:52:46,160 It's just but lighthouse keepers, lighthouse keepers very largely. It's an honorable truth telling. Yes. Very specific on their log books. 1554 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:55,160 And that's why it's so suspicious. Pretty big assumption to make. Yeah. Those guys are clearly. I don't know, like to be sketchy and not answer phone calls and then lie about whether or not they're ships. 1555 00:52:55,160 --> 00:53:02,160 They also had a bunch of unexplained cash flow. And lighthouse liquor started up the next day. 1556 00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:08,160 John and John. That would be cool. So anyway, just thought that was a fun little story. Yeah. 1557 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:20,160 The lighthouse was automated in 1987. Wait, let me see if I have any more pictures. Oh, it's just the lighthouse. Yeah. So beautiful. Automated in 1987 and immediately taken over by Montauk Historical Society. 1558 00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:34,160 So this is like this wonderful collaboration where it was taken over by a historical society or, you know, a nonprofit immediately after. There was no time where it wasn't being taken care of. 1559 00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:43,160 It was always being they wanted it right away. Yeah. Which is awesome. You didn't have to search. You didn't have to fight for it. It was just like the seamless transition of power over the lighthouse. 1560 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:52,160 So they opened the Keepers Dwelling as a museum and it includes that third and a half order for an Ellen. So you can go see that nowadays. 1561 00:53:52,160 --> 00:54:01,160 The it's one white flash every five seconds through an arrow beacon. And so there's no arrow. 1562 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:12,160 No, it's just a stupid joke to myself. Last time you told me about arrow beacons. Oh, yeah. I thought arrow was a brand like the apple of beacons. Yeah. They have the whole market. 1563 00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:24,160 For those who didn't listen to that arrow was a style of beacon. Yeah. It's an electric beacon that places lighthouse. It was originally it's called an arrow beacon because it was originally in airports. 1564 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:44,160 That makes sense. Yeah. So this lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. And this one's really cool. A national historic landmark in 2012. Oh, cool. Which only 12 lighthouses total are added to the landmark list. That's awesome. Yeah. 1565 00:54:44,160 --> 00:55:04,160 The 11th. So there's one more after this that was added. But currently there's only 12 lighthouses that are national landmarks. This is a just by appearances and also through the story. This is a really special lighthouse. I know. Yeah. Yeah. People. Yeah. I think this is a well loved lighthouse for sure. 1566 00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:25,160 I gotta say one more thing while we're here. Sure. Image that tower that was added for wartime efforts. Yeah. So there's the top, which is a railed. You know, you can be on the top. Yeah. And there's three different stories with like bunker style windows. I wonder if it's not like a gun tower. It looks like that. It looks like what we climbed into in Hawaii. 1567 00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:55,120 There there were bunkers like that in the in the rock of the island. I can't remember what they were called, but they were built like that. So yeah, it did talk about that tower, but there was a lot of details about this lighthouse. So I just I had to skip. Yeah. We're not a gun tower. That's not a lighthouse. Yeah. Although there happens to be gun towers at a lot of lighthouses. That's true. Well, yeah, because people are always trying to bomb them. It's evil. Well, and they got good lookout points and ports nearby. 1568 00:55:55,160 --> 00:56:25,120 So they're the first image we saw overhead had like this beach that's that we're on now. And they had some surfers, I think people with surfboards. Yeah, maybe it's a good surfing spot. I have heard that this is a good that this is a well traveled beach that it's very popular to come to. And you know, in this picture, there's a lot of rocks. Obviously they had trouble with erosion. Yeah. And I didn't make I didn't make notes on this, but they obviously were worried about the lighthouse losing the lighthouse because of the light. 1569 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:48,440 Erosion in this lady suggests came and suggested that they cut this coast into terraces, you know, like steps, steps in the side and then plant, you know, grasses and local plants and everything. And that stopped erosion. It's like she solved the problem. And then later on, the Coast Guard added all this riprap along the side, too. 1570 00:56:48,440 --> 00:57:12,360 But I should have covered it more because she did that to save her own house or something. She kind of came up with the idea, proved that it worked and then came to the lighthouse and was like, I have an answer to your problem. I've heard of that before. Yeah. I think they do that for multiple reasons with different types of like orchard, like not orchard grapes and olive growth that cut terraces. 1571 00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:31,880 I think they do that with tea leaves, too, in Japan. We saw a lot of those. The root systems stabilizes the soil rather than, you know, a sloped. Yeah. The sand doesn't fall away because it's being held together with. That's genius. Yeah. So I mean, she literally saved the lighthouse from being having to move or get destroyed. 1572 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:49,320 Yeah, we move a lot of lighthouses. It's not easy. It's like it's our job. This one, they'd have to move all 17 houses to challenge. That's hilarious. So 1999, a three phase restoration project was completed. And this is why I covered the lighthouse. 1573 00:57:49,320 --> 00:58:04,040 They had another restoration, three phase restoration that started in 2019 and they just finished it as of recording this podcast. It'll post later. But as of recording, it was two weeks ago. They finished. Oh, wow. Starting in 2019 and just finished. 1574 00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,720 I know it took a lot longer than building the lighthouse. Yeah, I know. 1575 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:22,560 Yeah, the first phase was completed in 2019. They repaired metal in the lantern room, the catwalk and the top of the tower. So anything metal, they fixed that up. The second phase was the most extensive included all stone and mortar repairs and paint stripping. 1576 00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:33,400 This started just as COVID hit. So they faced a bunch of problems with supply chain issues and basically it extended their projected completion time of this restoration. 1577 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:48,200 But they started back up again, I think last year and completed 2022. Yeah. And then completed. Maybe it was 2021. I can't remember. But they completed that phase this year in the spring. And then the third phase was recoding the lighthouse. It's like this. 1578 00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:56,000 It's coating that protects the brick, but allows it to breathe so that water doesn't get trapped. Yeah, I can't remember if we covered that already. 1579 00:58:56,000 --> 00:59:21,600 I've heard about that for houses even. You can't. You can, but you shouldn't paint brick because of the moisture content. It will break down. So you can like, I forget, like bleach it to make brick white on your house. You can actually take the color out of it. It's not bleach, but it's a process like that. Yeah. White washing rather than just it's not actually paint. And then I don't know how they do the red, but some more to learn. I think that's a good point. 1580 00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:32,480 And then I don't know how they do the red, but some more to learn. I think it is paint, but then special. Yes, special paint. And then there's a coating on top that protects everything. 1581 00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:41,160 But anyway, the best month for doing that is June. I'm not sure if it's because of the temperature or the moisture in the air or something. 1582 00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:57,680 But they were able to do that and it was finished on time. So they posted a picture of the visible brick version of the lighthouse, which is really fun. I think actually there's a picture when they stripped it so you can still see where the stripe would be. 1583 00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:10,400 I don't know if it's just over time, you know, over 100 and something years, you stain the bricks. That's the image I'm going to use for our YouTube picture. Okay, yeah. But it's a good one. It's so cool. 1584 01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:22,840 Yeah. Look at the iron work inside of the cupola. Is that right? Up top? Oh, yeah. This is so pretty. This lighthouse is so visually appealing. Even naked. 1585 01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:29,840 We like it naked. But yeah, you can see the white washed area and then I assume that's the red stripe looks blackened. 1586 01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:42,840 Yeah, it's just tinted. So it didn't have the same process. Well, and stripping how many, well, several hundred years of paint, right? Yeah. I mean, or whatever the finish is. Right. And then small bricks up top. 1587 01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:54,840 Probably part of the addition. Really neat. Yeah, they posted another picture of this. I didn't put it in the slideshow, but there's a lightning rod to cable going down the side. Oh, yeah. Good eye. 1588 01:00:54,840 --> 01:01:12,840 Their Instagram is MTK underscore lighthouse. So at MTK, which is Montauk Point Lighthouse. And you can see pictures. They did a, it was officially completed on August 16th, 2023. They did a ribbing cutting ceremony where they celebrated all the people who made it happen. 1589 01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:31,840 And I think the mayor was there and they posted pictures of all of that on their Instagram and all the steps of doing the restoration. So you can go and check it out. And yeah, another thing that I wanted to point out is that Montauk Point decorates like crazy for the holidays. 1590 01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:47,840 That's like, look at this. Whoa. It's amazing. Every crease of the lighthouse is covered in lights and the Keepers Cottage, they surrounded every window with lights, the roof, the chimneys. It's so cool. 1591 01:01:47,840 --> 01:02:01,840 Have we talked about Montauk Point before? Because that's like a mast pole. I don't think we have, but we've seen that somewhere else too. I wonder if there's some meaning behind that that we don't know. It's like a ship mast, like a cross. 1592 01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:12,840 You focus on things that I would never pay any attention to in pictures. Sorry. No, I just think it's funny. It's like, I'm just like, look at all these lights and you're like, there's a mast in this picture. 1593 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:25,840 It's also not lit up, which I guess it would look like a cross. So maybe that's a little, depends on. To me it looks like a sword sticking out of the ground. Yeah. I just think it's really pretty. That's a lot of lights. 1594 01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:42,840 Because the tower is what? A hundred feet tall now? 110. Yeah. I just wanted to show it. I was thinking one of our episodes, we have on the schedule an episode to post on a Christmas day. And I'm wondering if I should just do a really quick episode where I talk about lighthouses that decorate like crazy for the holidays. 1595 01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:59,840 Yeah, it can't hurt. So that's why I thought I would mention this. We talked about flying Santa last year. Yeah. Remind people to watch that one too. I know. For Christmas time. Have I covered St. Augustine Lighthouse? No. We've talked about it a couple times, but never. I think I've started my research and I won't spoil anything. Okay. 1596 01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:22,840 Ignoring what I just said. You're spoiling. Have you looked into like what they do? Like tours and Montauk Point? Do they have a website that shows that? They do have a website and I'll link it. I don't know if they rent out. You can climb it. I don't know if they rent it out or anything like that. I know there's more than one Keepers Cottage, so I don't know. It's up in the air. I haven't looked exactly what they offer, but they have a lot of different facets to their website. So. 1597 01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:52,840 It's just another place. I'd love to go. I know, all these White House, add it to the list and they're all spread out. Why are they all spread out? Well, I've never been to New York except for once. Yeah, it was recently. We were there for what couple hours. Yeah, we decided Times Square Times Square and Central Park got pizza close by, then we went back to the airport. Yeah, that was so. I don't think we saw much of it. They have all kind of a lot of things that just happened in 180, 1598 01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:58,000 of New York. Yeah I tried to plan out the visit being lighthouse focused and we 1599 01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:01,680 would have had to have rent a car in like that four hour time period and drive 1600 01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:04,680 but we would have been able to hit like five different lighthouses in that time 1601 01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:09,840 period they were all so close together. We'll do it on our own. Yeah. On our own trip. 1602 01:04:09,840 --> 01:04:13,240 Really good episode. Thank you. Anyway that's Montauk Point Lighthouse. 1603 01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:18,800 It's apparently the one to go to if you are only gonna go to one lighthouse. I think 1604 01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:22,800 people might contest that. Oh I didn't think the comments are open. The comment 1605 01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:26,800 section is open. Yeah if you think there's a better lighthouse to go to you 1606 01:04:26,800 --> 01:04:31,720 should send us the name of the lighthouse over the lighthouselowdown.com 1607 01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:36,280 in an email lighthouselowdown.gmail.com or over a voicemail if you're 1608 01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:41,760 brave enough. Do it. Montauk Point. Is this the first one it's the first one in 1609 01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:45,080 New York State. Yes. Is this the first one we've covered over there? I think it 1610 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:51,720 might be. I think it is. 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