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A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse / Theresa Levitt.
- Title
- A short, bright flash : Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse / Theresa Levitt.
- Author
- Levitt, Theresa.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- 281 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- Describes the life of the man who invented a new lighthouse lens, capable of shining brighter, farther, and more efficiently than existing light sources, and his fight against the scientific elite, his poor health, and the limits of his era's technology.
- Alternative Title
- Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Dark and deadly shores -- Dreams of glory -- The flash of brilliance -- The dream of total refraction -- Race to perfection -- The American exception -- Everything recklessly broken -- The golden age.
- ISBN
- 9780393068795 (hardback)
- 039306879X (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2013001565
- OCLC
- 811599507
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library