File:Solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays, ca.1903 (CHS-1305).jpg

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Solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays, ca.1903
Photograph of a solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays, ca.1903. The apparatus is designed to pumps water for irrigation. Gear mechanism (not visible) rotates the dish-shaped mirror to follow the sun.
Call number: CHS-1305
Filename: CHS-1305
Coverage date: circa 1903
Part of collection: California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Format: glass plate negatives
Type: images
Part of subcollection: Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
Repository name: USC Libraries Special Collections
Accession number: 1305
Microfiche number: 1-110-5
Archival file: chs_Volume71/CHS-1305.tiff
Geographic subject (city or populated place): Phoenix
Repository address: Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Geographic subject (country): USA
Format (aacr2): 3 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprints, b&w ; 22 x 17 cm.
Rights: Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
Subject (adlf): power generation sites
Project: USC
Repository email: specol@usc.edu
Contributing entity: California Historical Society
Date created: circa 1903
Publisher (of the digital version): University of Southern California. Libraries
Format (aat): photographic prints; photographs
Geographic subject (state): Arizona
Legacy record ID: chs-m10065; USC-1-1-1-10205; USC-1-1-1-14017
Access conditions: Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Subject (file heading): Industry -- Plants -- Installations -- Exteriors; Arizona -- Phoenix
Subject (lcsh): Solar energy; Water-supply
Date circa 1903
date QS:P,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Source http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll65/id/10301
Author Unknown authorUnknown author

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