Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt (1912-1913).
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His large home and laboratories still stand in the Tacony section of Philadelphia, as an apartment house and garages.
An early solar pioneer of the 19th and 20th century, Frank Shuman, built a demonstration plant that used solar power to pump water using an array of mirrors in a trough to generate steam.
In 1894, Frank Shuman, inventor of wire glass and a pioneer in solar power twice featured on the cover of Scientific American, built a large inventor's compound on Disston Street and there built the first solar-powered steam engine.
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