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1955
• The first public activities of AFASE took place in October and November 1955 - the year usually associated
with the beginnings of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES).
• Conference on the Use of Solar Energy—the Scientific Basis. October 31-November 1 at the University
of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. About 500 participants. Transactions were published in five volumes by the
University of Arizona Press in 1958.
• World Symposium on Applied Solar Energy, held in Phoenix the following week. 900 registrants, many
of whom had been in Tucson. 130 non-USA delegates from 130 countries. Proceedings were published
by the Stanford Research Institute in 1956.
• Phoenix Symposium also included a major exhibition of solar energy equipment entitled The Sun at Work,
with 85 exhibits from 50 exhibitors. 29,000 visitors attended

Figure 3: Harry Tabor with a flat-plate selective-surface steam generator at the “Sun at Work”
exhibition at Phoenix in 1955

Figure 4: SOMAR pump (Italy) at “Sun at Work” exhibition at Phoenix in 1955

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