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020			_a9781608687916
100			_aPerlin, John _97209
245		0	_aLet It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy/ _cJohn Perlin
260			_bNew World Library; _c2022
300			_a544p; _c23x15cm
520			_aEven as concern over climate change and energy security fuels a boom in solar technology, many still think of solar as a twentieth-century wonder. Few realize that the first photovoltaic array appeared on a New York City rooftop in 1884, or that brilliant engineers in France were using solar power in the 1860s to run steam engines, or that in 1901 an ostrich farmer in Southern California used a single solar engine to irrigate three hundred acres of citrus trees. Fewer still know that Leonardo da Vinci planned to make his fortune by building half-mile-long mirrors to heat water, or that the Bronze Age Chinese used hand-size solar-concentrating mirrors to light fires the way we use matches and lighters today.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aSolar energy- history\ _97210
650			_aT173.2-174.5 Technology (General)- Technological change _97211
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999			_c4972 _d4972