TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levitt,Theresa
TI  - A short bright flash: Augustin Fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse 
SN  - 9780393068795
AV  - VK1015 .L48 2013
U1  - 623.89/42B 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Fresnel, Augustin Jean,
KW  - Lighthouses
KW  - History
KW  - Fresnel lenses
KW  - Physicists
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -