Solar Energy History - A Potted History of Solar Power

Solar energy history started when the RomansAwareness about depleting resources of energy
took the use of solar energy a step further bywas there in the 1800s. Yet people still chose to
introducing glass windows, thereby trapping theuse designs that ran on other forms of energy..
heat of the sun. They were the first people toThe first silicon solar cell was developed in 1953,
use glasshouses to create the right environmentby Bell Laboratories scientists Gerald Pearson,
for plants and seeds to grow.Daryl Chapin and Calvin Fuller. It was capable of
History of solar power as we know it began ingenerating a measurable electric current.
the 1860s when August Mouchet invented aThe US government took the initiative of
solar-powered motor as well as a solar steamdeveloping the solar electric cell that Bell
engine. He also made ice from solar energy byLaboratories had produced, after oil prices nearly
connecting his steam engine to a refrigerationdoubled in October 1973.
device.However, it hasn't been until recently that the
In the 1870s, William Adams created what issolar industry has started to take off.
known The Power Tower Concept. He usedThe cost of implementing renewable energy
mirrors and solar energy to power a steamtechnology is getting lower as applications are
turbine. His concept is still in use today.mass-produced and the price of fossil fuels rises.
The first solar was created by Charles Fritz inThe role of photovoltaic energy systems for
1883. In the later 1880s, Charles Tellier heatedelectricity generation will definitely increase in the
water with the help of his solar power system.future.