Solar cooker
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A solar cooker, also known as a solar oven, is a device which uses the energy of direct sunlight to heat, cook or pasteurize drinks and other food materials. Many solar ovens currently in use are rela
Parabolic Solar Cooker
An Indian scientist demonstrates a solar cooker in 1963
Solar oven in use
Solar Oven made of cardboard
Horace Bénédict de Saussure
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Horace Bénédict de Saussure was a Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, mountaineer and Alpine explorer, often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the fi
Solar cooker
…cooking. The first academic description of the principles of a solar cooker is by the Genevan geologist, meteorologist, physicist, and Alpine explorer Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, in 1767. The principle of cooking meals by sunlight was largely developed in the French Foreign Legion, in the 1870s. A mirrored surface with high…
Portrait of Horace Bénédict de Saussure (after the picture by Juel, in the Library at Geneva)
Christian von Mechel, Descent from Mont-Blanc in 1787 by H.B. de Saussure, copper engraving; collection of Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Cyanometer, Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
Anemometer: a metal plate catches the wind and weight keep it still; their mass measure the strength of the wind,MHS Geneva)