Inventors Month: Solar lighting systems for rural communities

For the past three years, Toby Cumberbatch, a professor at Cooper Union, and an E-Team team have been working with rural communities in northern Ghana and Rwanda on a solar lantern project. They have made steady progress, developing and testing several generations of prototypes. The goal: to create an affordable, solar-powered lantern that is made from local materials and sold by local entrepreneurs.

Read more about this invention, and a Rwandan newspaper's story about the project, in our showcase of inventions and inventors.