# @stauglighthouse on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C9ViV6Du0_I
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20575996-stauglighthouse-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/6209755d74.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-07-12T20:44:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** St. Augustine Lighthouse & MM (@stauglighthouse) — https://gondola.cc/stauglighthouse

## Caption

✨The St. Augustine Lighthouse, completed in 1874, received a first order Fresnel lens from Parisian lens maker Sautter, Lemonnier & Cie. Louis Sautter had been making lenses since 1852, though he merged with Lemonnier in 1870. 

💡Our lens has 370 individual prisms and weighs roughly 2 tons. A 1000-watt light bulb currently serves as its light source, as it has since the tower was electrified in 1936.

📍staugustinelighthouse.org 

📸: nbucklesphoto 

#staugustinelighthouse #lens #light #staugustine #florida #lighthouse #saintaugustine #floridahistory #historicpreservation #museum #fresnellens #staugustinefl #moon

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historicpreservation, staugustinefl, saintaugustine, fresnellens, staugustinelighthouse, moon, lighthouse, floridahistory, lens, museum, florida, staugustine, light

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