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Title
Solar motor for pumping water near Phoenix Arizona, ca.1903
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1903
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of a solar motor near Phoenix, Arizona, showing detail of boiler where 2000 mirrors focus on sun's rays. It pumps water for irrigation. Gear mechanism in the left foreground rotates the dish-shaped mirror to follow the sun.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w
22 x 17 cm.
glass plate negatives
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m10066
USC-1-1-1-10206
USC-1-1-1-14017 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-1304
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m10066
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-1304.jpg
Subject
Industry--Plants--Installations--Exteriors
Outside California--Arizona--Phoenix
Irrigation & Water
Solar energy
Water-supply
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1903
Place
Arizona
Phoenix
USA
Source
1-110-4 [Microfiche number]
1304 [Accession number]
CHS-1304 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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