Sol Pell
Sol built the insulated cabinet needed to recreate northern conditions without drawing heat from a living person.
The person
Sol built the insulated cabinet needed to recreate northern conditions without drawing heat from a living person. He discovers how much experimental convenience depends on unexamined labor. He has refused to run overnight trials until assistants can work in shifts, delaying a demonstration the prince hoped would settle the dispute quickly.
Place in the family
A child of Mira Pell and Yara Pell; part of the youngest recorded generation of House Pell.
Yara records not only experiment results but interruptions, weather and who touched each object.
The Pells are instrument makers without noble rank.
Mira accepted the prince’s invitation only after securing the right to publish a failed experiment.
Perrin learned to repair clock escapements using scrap from confiscated estate machinery.
Hedra records the sound of furnace valves by making notches in a wooden flute.
Meret married into the crown while working as a nursery grafting apprentice.