Solar Tea jar
date: label: date made
content: ca 1980
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This solar tea jar dates from the early 1980s, the period following the Energy Crisis. During the 1970s, war and political turmoil in the Middle East resulted in embargos on oil imported to the United States. Those restrictions caused sharp increases in the cost of energy. Entrepreneurs responded with many products that promoted energy conservation. Some products were new ideas but others, like this tea jar, revived long-known techniques. To make solar tea one simply filled this jar with water, put in tea bags and closed the top. Leaving the jar sit in the sun for a few hours allowed solar heat to brew the tea. One then replaced the plastic dome with a plastic spout to serve the tea.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (funnel)
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Harold D. Wallace, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0300.01
label: accession number
content: 2016.0300
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0300.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tea kettle
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 19.05 cm