Solar Helmet (Dec, 1958)
Filed under: General — @ 11:16 pm
Source: Popular Electronics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1958
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Source: Popular Electronics ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Dec, 1958
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Tags: alternative energy
Solar cells on top of helmet power a tiny transmitter and receiver during daylight. The silicon cells also charge four small storage batteries to operate the set at night. (U. S. Army Photo)
“Foxtrot Alpha to base…Foxtrot Alpha to base…I appear to be wearing half a watermelon embedded with cigarette packets and I’m freakin’ bored”
In ‘Nam, Charlie would’ve been able to track American forces by the trail of solar cells knocked off their helmets by the jungle. No doubt they’d have collected them to assemble solar-powered bamboo lasers or something.
Neilster
Comment by Joey O'Neill — July 30, 2008 @ 3:42 am
This GI is green in more ways than one.
Comment by Torgo — July 30, 2008 @ 5:41 pm
Ah, solar cells: the power source that will be technologically and economically practical any day now…for the last 60 years.
Comment by rsterling78 — July 30, 2008 @ 8:12 pm