The Sun Queen and the Skeptic: Building the World’s First Solar Houses

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In the mid-20th century, colleagues-turned-rivals Maria Telkes and Hoyt Hottel engineered new ways of heating American homes.

An article from Distillations, produced by The Science History Institute

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