Astronomer, Sir Frederick-William Herschel

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Sir Frederick-William Herschel, an astronomer by profession, was the person who discovered infrared rays in
1800. He measured the temperature next to the spectrum’s red area where no sunlight could be seen. To his astonishment the region had the highest temperature recorded in terms of spectrum colors. Subsequently, the first thermal image was noted by his son John Herschel. He contributed to knowledge by adding a new perspective to the temperature measurement post 1960, whereby an American company used it to create a single feature detector capable of scanning scenery coupled with the development of the

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