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IN the published account of the 1865 Rede Lecture, "On Radiation" ("Fragments of Science", 1871), John Tyndall describes an experiment showing that a rise in temperature of an incandescent body augments the invisible radiation along with the visible. He tabulates the energy of the obscure radiation for increasing temperatures of his source, a spiral of platinum wire, and describes the appearance of the spiral, though the actual temperatures were not measured.
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Nature, 157, 737 (1946).
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DAVIES, C. Tyndall and Stefan's Radiation Law. Nature 157, 879 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157879d0
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