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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 ...
In 1948, he started his own company, Permaglass, in Genoa, Ohio.Permaglass produced curved and tempered glass for the consumer and automotive markets. 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.
In 1860 he began exploring solar cooking, drawing on the work of Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Claude Pouillet. Further experiments involved a water-filled cauldron enclosed in glass, which would be exposed to the heat of the sun until the water boiled; the steam thus produced would provide motive power for a small steam engine.
Flat Glass Group (FGG; Chinese: 福莱特玻璃集团; pinyin: Fúláitè Bōlí Jítuán) is a publicly listed Chinese glass production company headquartered in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. It is the world's second largest producers of photovoltaic (PV) glass used in solar power. In 2019, it had a daily capacity of 5,400 tonnes. [2] [3] [4]
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 ...
Scheffler cooker at JNV school in Leh, India.. Wolfgang Scheffler (born 1956) is the inventor/promoter of Scheffler Reflectors, large, flexible parabolic reflecting dishes that concentrate sunlight for solar cooking in community kitchens, bakeries, and in the world's first solar-powered crematorium. [1]
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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]