This week Annie tells Phoebe all about Maria Telkes, otherwise known as The Sun Queen - a Hungarian-American biophysicist, scientist and inventor who successfully developed the first solar thermal storage systems which were used to create one of the first solar-heated homes which started the American Solar Housing Boom in the 1970s.

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