From Scientific American, September 1892- Coast Guard Archives             To the landsman, buoys are homely, rotund objects...

I suspect, if you ask any modern-day physicist who Jean-Augustin Fresnel was, he/she would know. Everyday folk, however, may not have he...

London's "Great Exposition" opened May 1, 1851 in Hyde Park. It was an amazing place, most of the exhibit enclosed in an opule...

I'm a fan of Rudyard Kipling! (Read my blog "Kipling's Love of Lighthouses here .) His story, "The Disturber of Traff...