Charles Fritts [SEP] date of death
Charles Fritts
Charles Fritts (1850 – 1903) 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 resulting cells had a conversion electrical efficiency of only about 1% owing to the properties of selenium, which in combination with the material's high cost prevented the use of such
Paul Fritts
Paul Fritts is an American organ builder based in Tacoma, Washington who, following historical models, has created over thirty mechanical action instruments that have contributed to the revival of historically informed organ music. The Murdy organ at Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Notre Dame) in Notre Dame, Indiana is his largest Fritts instrument to date, with four manuals (keyboards) and 70 stops. Other recent Fritts instruments of note are located at the University of Notre Dame (2 man. 34 st.), Princeton