Word: shumann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Director Dr. Charles Greeley Abbott of the Smithsonian Institution has worked on sun engines. There is one, the Eaneas, working at low efficiency at Pasadena, Calif. At Meadi, near Cairo, Egypt, the Shumann engine produces 60 h.p. Its reflectors cover an acre. If an efficient and practical sun engine can be built, its sun source of energy is not only free but stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching...
...first concert will be given next Tuesday, the 20th, in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall at 8.15. The program is a very remarkable one, consisting chiefly of the famous Quartet in D major of Cesar Franck and the well-known Shumann Quartet in A major...