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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: BRAZIL
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 12:26:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  6 12:26:41 1986
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> 
>                             BRAZIL
>                A film review by Mark R. Leeper
> <text deleted>
>
> ducts.  All the technology in the world is refinements of inventions that
> were around at the end of World War II.  (One exception, I think, is the
> Fresnel lens, but for society to have changed so much and for only one
> invention to come along is a rather telling indictment of this political
> system.)

Umm -- the fresnel lens was invented by a Frenchman named (surprise surprise)
Fresnel, some time in the 19th century (it may have been even earlier).  He
designed it for use in lighthouses.

I know, I know this isn't relevant to net.movies.  Let's see...Ah ha, here's
a tie-in.  Any movie ever made with artificial lighting has used lamps fitted
with fresnel lenses.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@saber.uucp,  sun!saber!msc@decwrl.dec.com ...{ihnp4,sun}!saber!msc
"Boards are long and hard and made of wood"