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IT occurred to me that light might be decomposed by interrupting, with a reflecting surface, a ray of light in such a manner that the interruptions may be proportional to the wave-length period of any particular ray forming a part of a composite ray. The experiment is effected in the following way:—
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SMITH, F. Apparent Decomposition of Sunlight by Intermittent Reflecting Surfaces. Nature 24, 140 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/024140c0
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