"Sunglow Solar Furnace" Button
date: label: date made
content: 1975
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This button is from Sunglow Solar Systems, a New York company that sold a residential heater called the Solar Furnace. These units were made by International Solarthermics Corporation in 1975 and used the sun to warm “tons of rock” in an “A-frame ‘battery’” mounted next to a house. Air blown across this ‘battery’ would carry warm air throughout the house.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Reference: William G. Connally, “Friends of Solar Heating Bask in Hope,” New York Times, 8 June 1975, 259. “Test Set Up on Solar Furnace,” Washington Post, 1 November 1975, C15.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Environmental Buttons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0401
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)