The Pyrheliophor, a device invented by Manual Antonio Gomes (bottom right), a Portuguese priest known as Father Himalaya. (39/223)

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The Pyrheliophor, a device invented by Manual Antonio Gomes (bottom right), a Portuguese priest known as Father Himalaya.

The Pyrheliophor, on display at the fair, was an apparatus set up to use thousands of small mirrors to concentrate the sun’s rays and determine how much heat could be generated.

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