Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 1915
Date 08-Jul
Volume 33
Issue 741
Page 25
Category General
Part
Title Collecting and Using the Sun's Heat
Author
Notes Interesting Experimental Work for Model Engineers. The Sun's heat, showing the path of sun's rays, morning noon & evening, ways to store sun heat, the hot-box, elevation & plan of a simple "hot-box", hot-box boilers, a simple type, distilling water by sun heat, a simple device, a model hydraulic power development, simple apparatus for demonstrating conversion of solar energy into mechanical power, reflecting and concentrating heat, diagrams showing path of reflected light & heat ray, diagram showing concentration of light & heat rays by "refraction", a simple piece of magic, apparatus for concentrating heat by reflection from spherical mirrors, the best type of mirror, an air thermometer, rays brought to a point focus by shperical reflector, showing construction of form of parabolic mirrors, a parabolic trough-type reflector, trough and cone mirrors, a truncated cone-type reflector, a truncated octagonal pyramid reflector, the best type of mirror, trough and cone mirrors