Historical Society of Tacony Frank Shuman collection 1912-2011

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Historical Society of Tacony Frank Shuman collection, 1912-2011

Historical Society of Tacony Frank Shuman collection 1912-2011

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_HST06

Frank Shuman (1862-1918) was a resident of Tacony, Philadelphia, and an inventor. He built the world's first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt from 1912-1913: it was used to irrigate the desert near the Nile River. The bulk of the Historical Society of Tacony Frank Shuman collection, 1912-2011, consists of secondary materials, but there is also an original plan for the Maadi solar plant, and about two dozen original photographs of Shuman and his team building it.

0.5 Linear feet; (1 document box, 1 folder of photographs, 1 small framed item, 1 oversize framed item)

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