The loneliness and life-saving works of lighthouse keepers exhibited at the National Lighthouse Museum.

Staten Island in new york is now home to the National Lighthouse Museum, a non-profit website since 1998, which shows the cultural relics and cultural history of a work that is sometimes neglected, in which people live alone in a small piece of land to keep the light of saving sailors' lives.

The US government is suing a set of lighthouse lenses. A few months ago, the museum had a similar trial opening, and now it officially welcomes visitors. This weekend, in order to commemorate the National Lighthouse Day on August 7th, it will provide free admission tickets and some activities to celebrate its grand opening, including a speech by a famous professor at MIT, who is also a lighthouse keeper on a remote island in Lake Superior. The location of the museum itself is also full of historical flavor: it is the former site of new york Ocean Hospital (commonly known as isolation area), where there are as many as 1500 immigrants. If they are suspected of "poor health or problems", they can be detained-1858, 1862, a few years after the hospital was burned down. According to the new museum, this warehouse is "the key manufacturing, storage, supply and maintenance center of the third area of American lighthouse service", which extends from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Albany, New York, and eastward to the Massachusetts border.

At that time and most of the time in the history of our country, lighthouses were very important for maintaining the lives of sailors and mercury. 1789 On August 7, when George Washington was president, Congress passed a bill calling for the establishment and support of lighthouses, lighthouses, buoys and public piers (National Lighthouse Day commemorates this anniversary every year). As the executive director of the museum told The New York Times, "Lighthouses build the world economy." The founding fathers knew that if you can't sail safely into American ports, "you can't load goods or do business."

The new museum displays many tools that have helped guide ships over the years, including rusty foghorn and Fresnel lens (pronounced freh nel, named after French physicist Augustine Fresnel). 1822, Fresnel invented a new type of lens, which realized the optical revolution by reflecting and refracting light more effectively. The newly designed system has increased the distance by many miles, and sailors can see the lights of the tower. Visitors to the museum can see several shots, which also enables the lighthouse to create personalized lighting patterns so that sailors can identify which part of the coast they are approaching. This is a great progress for those who sail in the waves. When every dim lighthouse looks the same, they may get dangerously lost. Before the appearance of Fresnel lens, the lighthouse had only one kind of strong light and stable light.

In early countries, civilians managed these important lighthouses. Celestina Cuadrado, curator of the museum, explained that in the first hundred years, it was usually civilians with political connections. "Especially in the early and middle of the19th century, people often said,' Are you a Whig? I'm a Whig!

On the information board of the museum, the story of an industrious idol like kate walker, a famous female lamplighter stationed near new york Harbor, is told. Walker's husband was a lighthouse keeper and later got pneumonia; Before Walker died, the last thing he reported to her was "Watch the lights, Katie." After she temporarily took over as a lighthouse keeper, Walker violated the prejudice: the government thought she was too young to do the job and looked for someone they thought was stronger. However, due to its remote location, several people refused the position and Walker was hired. As the Coast Guard wrote, "Not only did she keep the light on, but according to her own account, she may have saved as many as 50 people." However, Cadrado explained that women who become leaders