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How do you discover light that your eyes can't see? In the year , 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. Then, he placed a thermometer under each color, with one extra thermometer just beyond the red light of the spectrum. He found that the thermometer that was seemingly out of the light had the highest temperature.
Thus, he discovered infrared light. Ritter's numerous scientific experiments were diverse, but many of them were concerned with electricity or electrochemistry.
One of his earliest studies focused upon the manner in which muscle tissue reacted to electrical charges, research that helped lead him to develop a general theory of nature.
Later, in , Ritter duplicated chemist William Nicholson's feat of using electrolysis to decompose water into hydrogen and oxygen, but took the experiment a step farther by collecting the gases discretely. The work led to his invention of the process of electroplating, which is used in modern times to plate gold, silver, and other metals.
Additional inventions soon followed, most notably the dry-cell battery in and an electrical storage battery in Ritter's greatest accomplishment, however, is considered his discovery in of a previously unknown region of the solar spectrum. A year before, William Herschel had announced the existence of the infrared region, which extends past the red region of visible light. Ritter, who believed in the polarity of nature, hypothesized that there must also be invisible radiation beyond the violet end of the spectrum and commenced experiments to confirm his speculation.
He began working with silver chloride, a substance decomposed by light, measuring the speed at which different colors of light broke it down.
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