Abel Pifre's solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927). Artist: Unknown

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Abel Pifre's solar-powered printing press, c1894 ([c1927). This used Augustin Mouchot's solar engine in which a mirror focused the Sun's rays onto a small boiler (patented in 1861). From Le Petit Inventeur, (Paris, c1927).

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