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How Was Infrared Discovered?

Serendipity. In the year 1800, Sir William Herschel was exploring the question of how much heat was contained by the different colors of visible light. He devised and experiment where he used a glass prism to separate sunlight into it’s rainbow of colors. … Thus, he discovered infrared light.

How did we discover infrared?

Herschel discovered the existence of infrared light by passing sunlight through a glass prism in an experiment similar to the one we describe here. As sunlight passed through the prism, it was dispersed into a rainbow of colors called a spectrum.

Sarah Jenkins

Sarah Jenkins

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Sarah Jenkins is a veteran tech journalist with over 12 years of experience covering artificial intelligence, mobile innovations, and digital ethics. Her insights have appeared in leading technology publications worldwide.

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