Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career to harnessing the power of the sun. Though undercut and thwarted by her male colleagues, she persevered to design the first successfully solar-heated house in 1948 and held more than 20 patents.
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- Self - Narrator
- Self - Architecture Professor
- Self - Historian
- Self - Architect
- Self - Gender Studies Scholar
- Dover House Resident
- Self - Telkes' Goddaughter
- Self - Journalist
- Self - Historian
- Self - Historian
- Self