Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy

by John Perlin

Book Overview

The definitive history of solar power and technology

Even 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608681327
• ISBN13: 9781608681327
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: New World Library
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"