A short bright flash augustin fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse english edition ebook levitt theresa amazonde kindle shop. A short bright flash augustin fresnel and the birth of the modern lighthouse horbuch download amazonde theresa levitt teri clark linden audible studios audible audiobooks. Augustin fresnel a french engineer active in the early nineteenth century came up with the idea of using prisms to concentrate light from a flame to make brighter lighthouse lights he may not have been the first to think of this although he didnt seem to know of any precedents until other people mentioned them after he expressed the idea but he brought it into practice apparently using a mirror to reflect light causes half of the light to be lost how while using a prism to focus . Augustin fresnel a french engineer active in the early nineteenth century came up with the idea of using prisms to concentrate light from a flame to make brighter lighthouse lights he may not have been the first to think of this although he didnt seem to know of any precedents until other people mentioned them after he expressed the idea but he brought it into practice apparently using a mirror to reflect light causes half of the light to be lost how while using a prism to focus . Augustin fresnel 1788 1827 shocked the scientific elite with his unique understanding of the physics of light the lens he invented was a brilliant feat of engineering that made lighthouses blaze many times brighter farther and more efficiently battling the establishment his own poor health and the limited technology of the time fresnel was able to achieve his goal of illuminating the entire french coast at first the british sought to outdo the new fresnel equipped lighthouses as a