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American Experience 35x5 - The Sun Queen

    

Midnight
At My TV

For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkesapplied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the sun's power.She designed and built the first successfully solar-poweredhouse in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientificchallenge of developing a reliable and economical way to storecaptured solar energy. Telkes held more than 20 patents at thetime of her death in 1995.

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