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2. Conservatory (greenhouse) - Wikipedia

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   An English conservatory, Dawley Court, near Hillingdon, Middlesex, photographed circa 1870. Conservatories originated in the 16th century when wealthy landowners sought to cultivate citrus fruits such as lemons and oranges that began to appear on their dinner tables brought by traders from warmer regions of the Mediterranean. Preservation of ...

3. Sunroom - Wikipedia

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   Sunroom and solarium have the same denotation: solarium is Latin for "place of sun[light]". Solaria of various forms have been erected throughout European history. Currently, the sunroom or solarium is popular in Europe, Canada, [2] the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. Sunrooms may feature passive solar building design to heat and ...

4. Solar furnace - Wikipedia

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   The ancient Greek / Latin term heliocaminus literally means "solar furnace" and refers to a glass-enclosed sunroom intentionally designed to become hotter than the outside air temperature. [ 1 ] Legendary accounts of the Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) tell of Archimedes' heat ray , a set of burnished brass mirrors or burning glasses ...

5. Jefferson Barracks Telephone Museum - Wikipedia

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   Sunrooms were added on the second floor and the first floor areas beneath each of the new rooms were enlarged in 1938. The officers and their families moved out the duplexes in the mid-1940s. Members of the Telecom Pioneers , a non-profit 501(c)(3) telephone company employee service organization, and their families and friends have spent over ...

6. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   In fact, passive-solar design features such as a greenhouse/sunroom/solarium can greatly enhance the livability, daylight, views, and value of a home, at a low cost per unit of space. Much has been learned about passive solar building design since the 1970s energy crisis.

7. Holmes on Homes - Wikipedia

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   After a homeowner mistakenly hires an inexperienced designer-contractor to renovate a sunroom and bathroom, a leak left in the roof results in her grandson slipping and getting hurt badly. Enraged at the accident and how poorly the job was going, she fires the contractor and calls in Mike Holmes to make things right.