In its March issue,Fast
Companymagazine highlighted women inventors, and uncovered this little
tidbit.
In its March issue,Fast
Companymagazine highlighted women inventors, and uncovered this little
tidbit. While at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Solar Energy Research Project in 1948, Hungarian-born Maria Telkeswas asked by Boston sculptor,Amelia Peabody, to construct
a solar-heated house on land she owned in Dover.
"I envisage the day when solar heat
collecting shelters, like power stations, will be built apart from the house,"
Telkes toldW. Clifford Harvey ofThe Christian Science
Monitor. "One such solar-heating building could develop enough heat
from the sun for pumping into an entire community of homes."
Courtesy
of Fast Company magazine, March
2009.
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