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  2. Frank Shuman - Wikipedia

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    Shuman sunengine on the March 1916 cover of Hugo Gernsback's The Electrical Experimenter Shuman sunengine 1907 Photo: Technical World magazine, September 1907. Frank Shuman (/ ˈ ʃ uː m ə n /; January 23, 1862 – April 28, 1918) was an American inventor, engineer and solar energy pioneer known for his work on solar engines, especially those that used solar energy to heat water that would ...

  3. Harold McMaster - Wikipedia

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    Within 3 months, he was producing glass for appliances, and for display cases; within 3 years, Permaglass was a leading manufacturer of glass plates for television sets. As the auto and electronics industries boomed in the 1950s, Permaglass was very successful.

  4. Glasfabrik Lamberts - Wikipedia

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    Glasfabrik Lamberts is the only independent manufacturer of cast glass [4] to produce profile glass, ornamental glass, wired glass and antimony-free solar glass. [ 5 ] Since 1996 the company has manufactured all its types of glass with the aid of an oxygen-fired glass melting furnace [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and sold them as EcoGlass , and it still the only ...

  5. Wolfgang Scheffler (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    To get to know an African country for the first time, he spent worked for six weeks in an aid camp in Kenya. At the end he talked to the director about the solar stove. He was invited to come back and start the project on site. In 1985, they started, initially with simple solar cooking boxes made of cardboard, foil and glass.

  6. Mária Telkes - Wikipedia

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    Telkes received a grant from the Ford Foundation of $45,000 to develop a solar-powered oven so people who lack the technology around the world would be able to heat things. [7] The project criteria included: "it had to be able to cook, boil, and bake according to any local custom", "durable, portable, and simple to use and clean", cheap, and it ...

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  8. Liter of Light - Wikipedia

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    Sealant is put around the hole made in the roof to keep it weather proof. The refractive properties of water ensures that the light from the sun that reaches the inside of the bottle becomes omni-directional mimicking an electric light bulb and emitting the same amount of light as a 40–60 W incandescent bulb depending on the amount of solar ...

  9. How to retire on less than $1 million and never run out of money

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    Bottom line. Ultimately, whether you can retire on less than $1 million will largely depend on your spending needs during retirement and your remaining life expectancy.