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Who Invented the Black Light?
The mysteriously undocumented attribution of the popular ultraviolet lamp.
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If you Google “Who invented the black light?” you will get one unequivocal answer—William H. Byler, in 1935. I performed such a search last year while researching fluorescent paint. But none of the websites noted where this information came from.
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