In the winter of 1948, a family of three moved into a newly built house in Dover, Massachusetts with curiously large windows. The Dover Sun House, as it came to be known, was the brainchild of chemical engineer and inventor Mária Telkes, obsessed with harnessing the power of the sun.
No one had ever tried to survive a frigid New England winter in a home heated by nothing but the sun. The Nemethys were the first to try.
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Learn more about the scientist behind the Dover Sun House in American Experience’s new documentary THE SUN QUEEN, available beginning April 4, 2023 on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/sun-queen/
