The Sun Queen: She lit the way for solar
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queen
For ~50 years chemical engineer/inventor Mária Telkes applied her intellect to harnessing the power of the sun.
She designed & built the world’s 1st successfully solar-heated modern residence & identified a new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery.
Along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues, all men, at MIT.
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