Solar heat: its practical applications.

Published by Charles H. Pope, 221 Columbus Ave.,, Boston, MA:, 1903

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12mo. 160 pp., plus 4 pp. publ. ads. Frontisp. double-page map, numerous woodcut-engraved plates, text diagrams, photo plates. Red publisher's cloth, gilt lettering stamped front cover & spine (some lifting to cloth from boards, minor shelfwear, light rubbing to corners), still VG copy, w/ bookplate of King David's Lodge, No. 209, San Luis Obispo on front pastedown, tipped-in publisher's promo from Pope "To the Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, Machinists and other Men of the Motive Power Department of the Southern Pacific Railway System." First edition of this scarce pioneering work on solar power, and its' technological and industrial applications. The author details the first U.S. Patent for a solar device by John Hittell and George W. Deitzler of San Francisco, and also believed that solar devices offered farmers freedom from coal, corporate monopolies, and water allocation laws. Also included are details and photos of solar engine at the famed Cawston ostrich farm in South Pasadena which from the 1890s through 1934 operated as a combination tourist attraction, theme park, and retail outlet. Cawston had partnered with the inventor Eneas to set up his Solar Motor Company in Los Angeles, and bought one of the massive machines for $ 2500 to pump water on his farm. This apparatus which resembled a modern radar dish was 33 feet in diameter, lined with 1788 mirrors, and was attached to a track on a supporting tower to be continually trained on the sun. See: Christopher Johnson, "Turn on the Sunshine": A History of the Solar Future (2015); John Perlin, Let it Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy (2013).…

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Title
Solar heat: its practical applications.
Author
[SOLAR POWER]. POPE, Charles Henry.
Publisher
Charles H. Pope, 221 Columbus Ave.,, Boston, MA:
Publication year
1903
Edition
1st Edition
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