| Edition |
First Edition. |
| Description |
281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Fresnel, Augustin Jean, 1788-1827.
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Lighthouses -- History.
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Fresnel lenses -- History.
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Physicists -- France -- Biography.
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| Added Title |
Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse |
| ISBN |
9780393068795 (hbk.) |
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039306879X (hbk.) |
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