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Harold A. McMaster (July 20, 1916 – August 25, 2003) was an inventor with over 100 patents and entrepreneur who founded four companies. Fortune Magazine called him "The Glass Genius". [1]
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 ...
In January 1977, moving to Texas, she joined the Solar Energy Department of the American Technological University. Then, in 1980, she moved from Texas to Maryland with Monegon, Ltd. In 1981 she helped the US Department of Energy to develop and build the first fully solar-powered home, Carlisle House in Carlisle, Massachusetts. [26]
The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia. However, most writers claim that they may have been producing copies of glass objects from Egypt. [1] Other archaeological evidence suggests that the first true glass was made in coastal north Syria, Mesopotamia or Egypt. [2]
In his corner office at Corning Inc.’s towering steel-and-glass headquarters in Corning, N.Y., CEO Wendell Weeks keeps a small, yellowed piece of paper in a dark wood frame behind his desk ...
Webberville is a village in Travis County, Texas United States. Its population was 394 as of the 2020 census. [3] Comprising settlements dating back to 1827, Webber's Prairie was formally established by retired physician John Ferdinand Webber in 1839. Webber's Prairie was renamed Webberville in 1853, and was incorporated as a Village in ...
Although glass was made at Jamestown, production was soon suspended because of strife in the colony. A second attempt at Jamestown also failed. Later attempts to produce glass were made during the 1600s; glass works in New Amsterdam and the Colony of Massachusetts Bay had some success. In the 17th century, at least two New Amsterdam glass ...
The collection is made up of 105 palm-size glass objects that prove that bigger is not always better. Each piece, produced by a method in which Hogan works with the glass in its cold state, is a ...