Solar Boiler
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Greeley Abbot, the second Director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, spent his scientific career measuring the intensity of solar radiation and seeking to correlate solar changes with weather conditions on earth. He was also interested in the practical use of solar radiation. He probably built this solar boiler in the mid-1950s.
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles G. Abbot, “Solar Heat Collector,” U.S. Patent #2,460,482 (Feb. 1, 1949).
label: Description
content: Charles G. Abbot, <i>Adventures in the World of Science</i> (Washington, D.C., 1958), pp. 141-143.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia
topic: label: Subject
content: Science & Scientific Instruments
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Smithsonian Institution
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334633
label: catalog number
content: 334633
label: accession number
content: 312088
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Oven, Solar
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 45 1/2 in x 30 1/2 in x 24 in; 115.57 cm x 77.47 cm x 60.96 cm
label: Measurements
content: mirror: 12 1/2 in x 12 in; 31.75 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: boiler: 14 in x 5 in; 35.56 cm x 12.7 cm