Zeopower model SR-4 solar-powered refrigerator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1982
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Zeopower model SR-4 solar-powered refrigerator, sn82139. Includes owner's manual, advertising material and associated documentation. A portable refrigeration unit with a 3-day cooling capacity. Unit operates on an adsorption cycle with water vapor and zeolite (a microporous, aluminosilicate mineral). Invented by electrical engineer and Univ. Texas A&M professor Dmitri Tchernev. Shelf is removable from unit. Glass jar inside unit is partly filled with water and sealed to copper pipe with silicone adhesive. Jar graduated by BTUs not by volume. On name plate: “The Zeopower Company / Natick, Massachusetts / Made in U.S.A. / Model No. SR-4 Serial No. 82139”. Printed inside door: “American Formed Plastics Corporation / Elkhart, Indiana 46514”.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from John Tchernev
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0221.01
label: accession number
content: 2015.0221
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0221.01
label: serial number
content: 82139
objectType: label: Object Name
content: refrigerator
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 46 in x 33 in x 48 in; 116.84 cm x 83.82 cm x 121.92 cm