Spanning a career of almost half a century, Mária Telkes dedicated her extraordinary mental faculties to the pursuit of solar energy, which included creating the first solar-heated house to see real-world success. Encountering opposition and undermining from her male colleagues and supervisor at MIT, she nevertheless persisted through these challenges. A woman appears in the photograph, draped in a fur coat and gazing upwards, standing against an architectural backdrop with an air of contemplation or resolve. Her appearance suggests an era from the mid-20th century, reflected in her fashion and the black and white quality of the photograph.
