History of Solar Cells in a Nifty Interactive Timeline

May 29th, 2012 by Zachary Shahan

Someone recently shared the awesome solar cell timeline below with us and sister site Green Building Elements. Matthew Redford, who supplied the timeline, writes that he’s based it on the Wikipedia entry for solar cells. This is just a fun one — check it out:

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Ross

Like the electric vehicle, solar cells evidently have a much longer history than probably most people realise.
- http://cleantechnica.com/ Zachary Shahan
  
  yeah, think so.