In 1954 Gerald Pearson,Calvin Fuller. and Daryl Chapin invented the first solar battery funded by and named after Bell Laboratories. The Bell Solar Battery was first tested with a telephone carrier system (Americus, Georgia) on 10/4/1955.
In 1985 the City of Seabrook, with the blessings of Rex and Evelyn Meador, donated to Harris County six acres of land originally given to the City by the Meadors. The donation was given with the stipulation that a county branch library would be built within two years of the donation. The Friends group was founded in 1985 by a small group of interested Seabrook citizens. The initial size of the library was to have been 4,500 square feet.
Other challenges, he said, have included the sheer size of the space. Nave said Westbrook is the second-largest shopping center in the city and one of the largest in northern Johnson County. Such a large shopping center would normally be located on a highway, he said, not in a neighborhood like 75th and Quivira.