Charles Fritts

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Gender	Male
Date of birth	February 27,1850
Zodiac sign	Pisces
Born	Boston
	Massachusetts
	United States
Job	Engineer
	Inventor
Died	1903
Date of Reg.	2019-03-04 12:23:34
Date of Upd.	2023-07-26 14:02:49
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Charles Fritts Life story

Charles Fritts was the American inventor credited with creating the first working selenium cell in 1883. The world's first rooftop solar array, using Fritts' selenium cells, was installed in 1884 on a New York City rooftop. Fritts coated the semiconductor material selenium with an extremely thin layer of gold.

The long history of solar power

Feb 16,2020 6:07 am

... Becquerel first observed the photovoltaic effect in his father s laboratory In 1883, American engineer Charles Fritts built the first solid-state photovoltaic cells, and then the first rooftop solar array which combined different cells, in New York city...