Maria Telkes with device

406 × 610 pixels THE SUN QUEEN Maria Telkes

An older woman wearing a lab coat and holding a large beaker/vial of some chemical substance sits in front of a complicated-looking scientific instrument on the table. She is obviously speaking to the camera and about to demonstrate some sort of scientific process using the machine.

Maria Telkes demonstrating Glauber’s Salt technology at MIT.
Image: Library of Congress

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