Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 204
t he should havebeen attracted by the possibility of obtainingpower from the heat of the sun. In an earlypamphlet on the subject he says: There is arainless resfion extendinof from the northwesterncoast of Africa to Mongolia, nine thousand milesin length and nearlv one thousand miles wide. JOHN… … Solar-engine Adapted to the Use of Hot Air.(Patented as a pumping-engiiie, 1&80.) heat. Ericsson estimated that the mechanicalpower that would result from utilizing- the solarheat on a strip of land a single mile wide andeight thousand miles long would suffice to keeptwenty-two million…
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