The Beat Goes On Whether on gramophone records, phonograph records, or simply records, the popularity of recorded music exploded with the invention of vinyl records. Up until 1951, 78 rpm-mastered records were made of a brittle shellac material, but in 1951 inventor Ewing Dunbar Nunn founded Audiophile Records and manufactured recorded music in micro-grooves and pressed on vinyl. The change made it possible to preserve and play music in a much more durable form, ushering in t

StartFragment A Beacon Home StartFragment National Lighthouse Day is August 7, 2017. The seventh day of August was approved by an Act of Congress in 1789 for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers. Throughout history the United States has had approximately 1,000 lighthouses, light towers, range lights and pier head lights in operation. Michigan is the state with the greatest number of lighthouses, over 150 of them. The first lighthouse i