Abstract

Pending the preparation of my complete memoir, which may occupy me for some time to come, I would ask permission of the Royal Society to lay before the Fellows a brief and partial summary of the results of my experiments on the invisible radiation of the electric light. The distribution of heat in the spectrum of the electric light was examined by means of the linear thermo-electric pile, applied to the solar spectrum by Melloni, Franz, Müller, and others. The elective spectrum was formed by lenses and prisms of pure rock-salt, its width being equal to the length of the row of elements forming the pile. The latter, standing at right angles to the length of the spectrum, was caused to pass through its various colours in succession, and to search the spaces beyond the region of colour, in both directions.

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