Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Abbot, C. G (Charles Greeley) b. 1872
- National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- South Yard
- Smithsonian Institution Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Summary
- Astrophysicist and fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944) Charles G. Abbot with a half horse-power solar boiler, exhibited at the International Congress of Engineers and used by the National Broadcasting Company with a steam engine and generator to broadcast to the United States and Canada. In the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle", Secretary Abbot is seen here to the right of the photograph with his hand on the machine. There are three unidentified men to the left of the solar boiler.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 1, Folder: 7
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- c. September 30, 1936
- Standard number
- 4694-C or MNH-4694C
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Group, candid
- Event
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Solar Boiler
- Inventions
- Secretariats
- Scientific apparatus and instruments
- Astrophysicists
- Physicists
- Astrophysics
- Solar energy
- Smithsonian Institution--Employees
- Event
- Special events
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9651
