In 1948, the Nemethy family moved into a curious new solar powered house in Dover, Massachusetts. The Dover Sun House, as it came to be known, was designed by physicist Mária Telkes, and it was ...

the Dover Sun House.That strange, cheese-shaped house with a row of 18 windows, designed to use solar energy to heat a home. The house was funded by the philanthropist Amelia Peabody and with the ...

The boldest solar experiment ever attempted officially launched when, on Christmas Eve, a family of three showed up and moved in. Their arrival at the Dover Sun House was practically a miracle in ...