Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association
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Charity License Plate
Support the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association by purchasing the Beavertail Plate for your Rhode Island Registered car. Each plate’s purchase and renewal provides financial support for the BLMA.
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BLMA Scholarship 2025
The Scholarship Fund was established for high school seniors living in Jamestown, RI who intend to further their education at an institution of higher learning. It is awarded in honor of W. Craig Armington, who served many years as an enthusiastic and hardworking member of the BLMA. Thus, the Beavertail Light and the BLMA continue…
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Lighthouse Log – Winter 2025
The “Lighthouse Log” is the quarterly Newsletter of the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
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Fresnel Lens
This lens, on display in the Museum, is a fourth-order lens that was in the tower at Beavertail until it was replaced in 1991 by a rotating beacon.This type of lens was developed in 1823 by a Frenchman named Augustin Fresnel(pronounced frey – NEL).The arrangement of the prisms bends the light rays thus making the…
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Funck-Heap Lamp
The Funck-Heap lamp, introduced in 1892, became the standard lamp used with every 4th order Fresnel Lens in America. A Lamp such as this one probably provided the light source for the Fresnel lens on display in the center of this room before it was electrified in 1932.The Funck-Heap lamp featured a circular wick flame…
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Lighthouse Log – Fall 2024
The “Lighthouse Log” is the quarterly Newsletter of the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association.
This is the most recent issue
