Solar Boiler
name: label: maker
content: Abbot, Charles Greeley
notes: label: Description
content: Charles Greely Abbot (1872-1973), 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.
label: Description
content: Abbot, who was also interested in the practical use of solar radiation, built several solar boilers and cookers. This one, which has a circular rather than cylindrical mirror, probably dates from the late 1940s. The inscription on the associated alarm clock reads "CHEERO MADE BY THE . . . INGRAHAM CO. BRISTOL CONN., U.S.A." That on the associated steam engine reads "Boucher Inc. 415 Madison Ave. N.Y. MADE BY THE H. E. BOUCHER MFG. CO., N.Y., U.S.A."
label: Description
content: Ref: Charles Greeley Abbot, Adventures in the World of Science (Washington, D.C., 1958), pp. 142-143.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.334631.01
label: accession number
content: 312088
label: catalog number
content: 334631.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: solar boiler
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 35 1/4 in x 18 in x 30 in; 89.535 cm x 45.72 cm x 76.2 cm
label: Measurements
content: mirror: 3 1/4 in x 14 in; 8.255 cm x 35.56 cm
label: Measurements
content: boiler: 7 in x 2 in; 17.78 cm x 5.08 cm
label: Measurements
content: flask: 13 1/4 in x 3 7/8 in; 33.655 cm x 9.8425 cm
label: Measurements
content: crate: 34 in x 34 in x 18 1/2 in; 86.36 cm x 86.36 cm x 46.99 cm