Colour vision : being the Tyndall lectures delivered in 1894 at the Royal Institution (1895)
Abney, William de Wiveleslie, Sir, 1843-1920 · London : S. Low, Marston & Company · leaf 51
Fundamental Light. 35 causes it to glow brightly. In the circuit, however, I have introduced what is known as a resistance, which consists of a very large number of square pieces of carbonized linen, pressed more or less tightly to¬ gether. By means of a screw the pressure can be varied. When the… … glow-lamp it appears as a luminous yellow cylinder, the colour being due to that of the light within it. We can next insert more resistance in the circuit, and it becomes red, due to the ruddy light of the thread. By inserting still more resistance into the circuit the red fades away, but in the…
Color vision
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
