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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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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
  • Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827
  • Lighthouses > History
  • Fresnel lenses > History
  • Physicists > France > Biography
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