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Who Invented the Lens Used at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse?Augustine Jean Fresnel (pronounced fray-nell) Fresnel (born May 10, 1788, died July 14, 1827), a French physicist, was commissioned by France in 1822 to develop a better lighting system for the French lighthouses. Rather than try to develop a brighter light source, Fresnel set about designing a better, more efficient method of using the light which 1820's technology could produce. 19th Century lighthouses used silvered-metal parabolic reflectors, placed behind a lamp, to direct the light seaward. This system was not very efficient, and worked poorly as an aid to navigation. Remember that light produced by a lamp, or any source, radiates out in all directions. Fresnel's task was to find the most efficient method to direct all, or nearly all, of the lamp's light rays out to sea. To improve upon the parabolic reflector, Fresnel looked to glass lenses for a method of directing more of the light from a lamp seaward. Molding a single lens to do the job was impractical. A lens suitable for a lighthouse would be far too large to be cast as a single lens. Instead Fresnel designed a system of smaller lens and prisms, arranged in a stair-step configuration. He used this system to bend, fold, and focus the light out to sea. The result was a lens that was able to use about 80 percent of the light available from the lamp! In the case of the lens used at Pigeon Point, about 70,000 candlepower was produced by the original lamp. This type of lens, called a Fresnel  lens, was a technological breakthrough! The new lens was far more efficient in its use of the small amount of light produced by a ?page_id=22000">lard oil lamp. In addition, a Fresnel lens could be disassembled and shipped in sections and configured into virtually limitless numbers of light characteristics, that is, patterns of flashes of light divided by periods of darkness.

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Who Invented the Lens Used at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse?Augustine Jean Fresnel (pronounced fray-nell) Fresnel (born May 10, 1788, died July 14, 1827), a French physicist, was commissioned by France in 1822 to develop a better lighting system for the French lighthouses. Rather than try to develop a brighter light source, Fresnel set about designing a better, more efficient method of using the light which 1820's technology could produce. 19th Century lighthouses used silvered-metal parabolic reflectors, placed behind a lamp, to direct the light seaward. This system was not very efficient, and worked poorly as an aid to navigation. Remember that light produced by a lamp, or any source, radiates out in all directions. Fresnel's task was to find the most efficient method to direct all, or nearly all, of the lamp's light rays out to sea. To improve upon the parabolic reflector, Fresnel looked to glass lenses for a method of directing more of the light from a lamp seaward. Molding a single lens to do the job was impractical. A lens suitable for a lighthouse would be far too large to be cast as a single lens. Instead Fresnel designed a system of smaller lens and prisms, arranged in a stair-step configuration. He used this system to bend, fold, and focus the light out to sea. The result was a lens that was able to use about 80 percent of the light available from the lamp! In the case of the lens used at Pigeon Point, about 70,000 candlepower was produced by the original lamp. This type of lens, called a Fresnel  lens, was a technological breakthrough! The new lens was far more efficient in its use of the small amount of light produced by a ?page_id=22000">lard oil lamp. In addition, a Fresnel lens could be disassembled and shipped in sections and configured into virtually limitless numbers of light characteristics, that is, patterns of flashes of light divided by periods of darkness.

The lower right number (if given) refers to the thickness of the glass cover slip (in millimeters) assumed by the lens designer for best performance of the objective. Example: 0.17.The lower left number is the tube length in millimeters. This is related to the standardization of microscopes and the particular standard used for the manufacture of your microscope. Most microscopes employ the Deutsche Industrie Norm, or DIN standard configuration. The Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) is less commonly used. DIN microscopes begin with an object-to-image distance of 195 mm, and then fix the object distance at 45 mm. The remaining 150 mm distance to the eyepiece field lens sets the internal real image position, which is defined as 10 mm from the end of the mechanical tube (which gives the 160 mm tube length). DIN standard eyepieces have an international standard 23 mm diameter. DIN standard objectives often times have "DIN" etched on the side and have a standard 0.7965 in diameter thread, 36 TPI, 55° Whitworth threading. Celestron microscopes are made to DIN standards. The tube length for the DIN standard is 160 mm, while for the JIS it is 170 mm.NOTE: JIS objectives can be used on a DIN microscope and vice versa. The threads on both types are interchangeable. However, since the optical distances are different, there will be a difference in magnification. A JIS objective used on a DIN microscope will have a slightly lower magnification than the rated magnification since the DIN tube is shorter. And a DIN objective used on a JIS microscope will have a slightly higher magnification than the rated magnification since the JIS tube is longer.

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Microscope objective lenses will often have four numbers engraved on the barrel in a 2x2 array. The upper left number is the magnification factor of the objective. For example, 4x, 10x, 40x, and 100x.The upper right number is the numerical aperture of the objective. For example 0.1, 0.25, 0.65, and 1.25.