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The next great thing : the sun, the Stirling engine, and the drive to change the world

Title
The next great thing : the sun, the Stirling engine, and the drive to change the world / Mark L. Shelton.
Author
Shelton, Mark L.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, ©1994.

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Description
272 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
An examination of Sunpower, Inc., its founder, William Beale, and the attempt to create a solar-powered Stirling engine.
Subject
  • Sunpower (Firm)
  • Solar engines
  • Stirling engines
  • Stirlingmotoren
  • Zonne-energie
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
The magic box -- The contraption in the stairwell -- The ultimate machine -- The world according to William -- The arc of the trapeze -- Turning money into hardware -- Back to the drawing board -- Shade -- More heat, more pressure -- Pig dreams -- Data acquisition on a non-ultimate machine -- Men in suits -- The carnival comes to sunpower.
ISBN
  • 0393036197
  • 9780393036190
LCCN
93034409
OCLC
  • ocm28845321
  • 28845321
  • SCSB-9560336
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library