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Mária Telkes

Physicist who designed the Glauber's-salt heat storage for the Dover Sun House, then founded a solar-energy lab at New York University.

Roles
physicist, researcher

Sources

  1. Dover Sun House. Wikipedia. · accessed November 4, 2026
  2. The House of the Day After Tomorrow. MIT Technology Review, June 22, 2010. · accessed November 4, 2026

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The sun house that ran out of salt

The Dover Sun House stored the sun's heat in Glauber's salt. It worked, then it didn't. A 1948 experiment and what it still teaches.