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Title: Water-power produced by sunlight, Cal Tech
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Sign reads, "Water-Power produced by sunlight, 4% total energy used by man." A demonstration of the process which creates hydroelectric power, beginning with the evaporation of water caused by the heat of the sun. The demonstration is presented at the California Institute of Technology in the 1920s or 1930s.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036250
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Pasadena-Universities and colleges-Cal Tech.; N-005-710 4x5
CARL0000039071
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/97340
Subject: California Institute of Technology
Universities and colleges--California--Pasadena
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Water-power--California--Pasadena
Pasadena (Calif.)

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