TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levitt,Theresa
TI  - Short bright flash: augustin fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse
SN  - 0393350894
AV  - VK1015 .L48 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - [Place of publication not identified]
PB  - W W Norton
KW  - Fresnel, Augustin Jean,
KW  - Lighthouses
KW  - History
KW  - Fresnel lenses
KW  - Physicists
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -