Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- This button is from Sunglow Solar Systems, a New York company that sold a residential heater called the Solar Furnace. These units were made by International Solarthermics Corporation in 1975 and used the sun to warm “tons of rock” in an “A-frame ‘battery’” mounted next to a house. Air blown across this ‘battery’ would carry warm air throughout the house.
- Reference: William G. Connally, “Friends of Solar Heating Bask in Hope,” New York Times, 8 June 1975, 259. “Test Set Up on Solar Furnace,” Washington Post, 1 November 1975, C15.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1975
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Object Name
- Button
