INVENTOR'S MACHINE CONVERTS SUNLIGHT TO ENOUGH HEAT TO MELT A DIAMOND
San Francisco, California (JFK+50) On April 22, 1924, inventor Marcel Moreau of San Francisco announced that he has discovered a means of "harnessing the sun's heat."
Mr. Moreau says he has "succeeded in devising a combination of little mirrors set in a bowl...four feet in diameter" that when focused through small lenses produces a great amount of heat from the sun.
Working from previous experiments by Archimedes* and Buffon**, the inventor claims he has produced enough heat from his machine "to melt a diamond."
*Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer & inventor of Ancient Greece.
**Georges Louis Leclerc, a.k.a. Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician & cosmologist.
JFK+50 NOTE
When sunlight hits an object and is absorbed, short wavelength energy is changed to long wavelength energy or heat.
SOURCE
"Inventor Claims Harnessing Sun To Melt Diamond," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., April 22, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
