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LENS
The Fresnel lens, developed in the 1820s by French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, revolutionized lighthouse optics — its concentric glass rings could throw a beam visible more than 20 miles out to sea.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
FOGHORN
Before electric foghorns, keepers hand-cranked steam-powered horns or struck bells by hand to warn ships in zero-visibility fog — a round-the-clock task that could last for days.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CAPE
Some of America's most storied lighthouses stand on capes — Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, built in 1870, rises 198 feet and remains the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
KEEPER
Lighthouse keeping was a federal job in the U.S. from 1789, when Congress placed the lights under Treasury Department oversight — and women served as official keepers too, often taking over after a husband's death.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Lighthouses word search — free and large-print — salt air, turning lamp, rocky point, the keeper's endless watch over dark water.

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Before GPS and radio, a lighthouse was the last word between a ship and the rocks — its beam sweeping out across miles of open water, marking a cape, a reef, or the mouth of a harbor. Inside, a keeper tended the flame through every storm and fog-thick night, climbing the spiral stair again and again to keep the light burning. That slow, steady rhythm of the turning lantern — one flash, then darkness, then another flash — was the language sailors strained to read from the deck of a pitching vessel.

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    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
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    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
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