In its March issue,Fast Companymagazine highlighted women inventors, and uncovered this little tidbit.

In its March issue,Fast Companymagazine highlighted women inventors, and uncovered this little tidbit. While at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Solar Energy Research Project in 1948, Hungarian-born Maria Telkeswas asked by Boston sculptor,Amelia Peabody, to construct a solar-heated house on land she owned in Dover.

"I envisage the day when solar heat collecting shelters, like power stations, will be built apart from the house," Telkes toldW. Clifford Harvey ofThe Christian Science Monitor. "One such solar-heating building could develop enough heat from the sun for pumping into an entire community of homes."

Courtesy of Fast Company magazine, March 2009.