Entrée principale:

Butti, Ken.

Titre et auteur:

A golden thread : 2500 years of solar architecture and technology / Ken Butti and John Perlin.

Publication:

New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980.

Description:

xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 19 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
"Produced by Cheshire Books ... Palo Alto, CA."
Bibliography: page
Early use of the sun -- Solar architecture in ancient Greece -- Roman solar architecture -- Burning mirrors -- Heat for horticulture -- Solar hot boxes -- Power from the sun -- The first solar motors -- Two American pioneers [John Ericsson, Aubrey Eneas] -- Low temperature solar motors -- The first practical solar engine -- Solar water heating -- Early solar water heaters -- Hot water -- day and night -- A flourishing solar industry -- Solar house heating -- Solar communities of Europe -- Solar heating in early America -- An American revival -- Solar collectors for house heating -- The modern era -- Postwar energy perspectives -- Worldwide solar water heating -- Full circle.
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Résumé:

Early use of the sun -- Solar architecture in ancient Greece -- Roman solar architecture -- Burning mirrors -- Heat for horticulture -- Solar hot boxes -- Power from the sun -- The first solar motors -- Two Amerian pioneers [John Ericsson, Aubrey Eneas] -- Low temperature solar motors -- The first practical solar engine -- Solar water heating -- Early solar water heaters -- Hot water -- day and night -- A flourishing solar industry -- Solar house heating -- Solar communities of Europe -- Solar heating in early America -- An American revival -- Solar collectors for house heating -- The modern era -- Postwar energy perspectives -- Worldwide solar water heating -- Full circle.

ISBN:

0442240058
9780442240059
0917352076
9780917352072

Sujet:

Solar energy History.
Architecture and solar radiation History.
Architecture and solar radiation.
Énergie solaire Histoire.
Architecture et rayonnement solaire Histoire.
Architecture et rayonnement solaire.
Solar energy.
Solararchitektur
Sonnenenergie
Zonne-energie.
Energia.
Energia Solar (Economia)
Énergie solaire.
Chauffage solaire.
Solar energy Applications to 1979

Classification/genre:

History.

Vedettes secondaires:

Perlin, John.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 88505
Cote: 5754; ID:85-B12709
Statut: Disponible