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New York City: May 30, 2014: SolarWall® inventor John Hollick has been honoured in an exciting new exhibit curated by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) that features the best inventions and engineering feats of the past two centuries, including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, George Westinghouse, Willis Carrier, the steam engine and the Panama Canal.
Entitled “Engineering the Everyday and the Extraordinary”, the goal of the exhibit is to “invite people to rediscover the remarkable; the engineers and inventions that have shaped our world as well as the extraordinary breakthroughs that are already setting the stage for the future.”
ASME focused on nine categories of engineering: Environment, Food, Safety, Manufacturing, Energy & Power, Transportation, Health, Exploration and Communication. The 80 inventors and inventions whose stories they chose to highlight represent the best of those categories.
The SolarWall® technology and inventor John Hollick are featured in the Energy & Power category. The other inventions highlighted in this category are the steam engine, the transformer, the incandescent light bulb, the internal combustion engine, the jet engine, the electric generator, and the Itaipu Dam.
SolarWall®, a transpired collector technology, was a breakthrough invention that created the global solar air heating industry. It was ranked by the U.S. Department of Energy as being in the “top two percent of energy related inventions” because of its unique technical design and efficiency at converting sunlight into usable thermal energy. It remains the only building-integrated clean energy technology – now used in thousands of commercial, industrial and agricultural applications around the world – that effectively addresses the huge amount of energy used for space and process heating. The SolarWall® technology is now poised for significant growth as solar air heating becomes a mainstream solution to reducing GHG emissions and with new applications for this innovative technology.
The unique display celebrates and promotes these 80 inventors and engineering feats that have made a difference in our world, and will continue to impact our future. It will remain in the lobby of the ASME building in NYC for the next 15 years.
