Fair rating?American Experience· Season 35 · Episode 7
The Sun Queen
For nearly 50 years, biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the sun's power. She designed and built the first successfully solar-powered house in 1949 but was perplexed by the knotty scientific challenge of developing a reliable and economical way to store captured solar energy. Telkes held more than 20 patents at the time of her death in 1995.
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#5In Season 35of 7 rated episodes
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−0.2vs season avgSeason 35 averages 7.2
2023First airedApril 4, 2023
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