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.
MARC Trains also depart from the BWI Rail Station and run to Union Station in Washington, DC and New Carrollton, Seabrook and Bowie in Prince Georgeâs County. Free shuttles are available from the airport terminal.