The “Paraboloid of Revolution”

7月 22, 2010 · Posted in 未分類 

The work of pioneering solar scientist Dr. Charles G. Abbot’s received far-flung recognition and publicity after his invention of the solar oven in 1941. But despite his optimism, the power experts shook their heads. It was not enough merely to equal the effectiveness of standard sources of power. “He’ll have to do better than that,” was the dictum of Professor C. C. Furnas of Yale University. Meanwhile, in Russia, they were experimenting at Sun laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where research on the utilization of solar radiation for house heating is being carried on.

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