Short bright flash : augustin fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse.
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TextPublisher: [Place of publication not identified] : W W Norton, 2015Content type: text Media type: unmediated ISBN: 0393350894; 9780393350890Subject(s): Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827 | Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827 | Lighthouses -- History | Fresnel lenses -- History | Physicists -- France -- Biography | Fresnel lenses | Lighthouses | Physicists | FranceGenre/Form: Biography. | History.LOC classification: VK1015 | .L48 2015| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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.
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