Jewish Invention Myths: The Infra-Red Lamp

Sometimes jews claim they invented things which make little sense. One such is the jewish claim that they invented the Infra-Red lamp with the jew mentioned by Edwin Land. (1)

I cannot find any actual evidence Land invented anything to do with infra-red – although it is possible I missed something – but it is almost certain the claim is not true since the first infra-red detector was invented by Italian physicist Leopoldo Nobili in 1830 (2) with the first thermal image – the thermogram - being produced by the English polymath Sir John Herschel in 1840. (3)

In 1878 Samuel Langley – an American astronomer, physicist and inventor – created the first bolometer which allowed radiant heat to be measured and thus allow an infra-red image to be created and monitored. (4)

The first true use of a practical infra-red device was by the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War in 1944 using an infra-red scope called the Zielgerät 1229 (aka the ‘Vampir’) which Soviet military testimony suggests may have been in use by German snipers in early 1944, (5) but was certainly in use by German infantry on the StG-44 assault rifle by early 1945. (6)

In other words: Land simply doesn’t figure in the history of the development of the infra-red lamp or even the concept.

So no jews didn’t invent the Infra-red lamp: the Third Reich did.

References

(1) https://christianislamicforum.wordpress.com/dedicated-to-our-jewish-brethren/

(2) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000052859885;view=1up;seq=237

(3) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000054592933;view=1up;seq=47

(4) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433090766035;view=1up;seq=282

(5) Waldemar Trojca, 1999, ‘PzKpfw. V Panther’, Vol. II, 1st Edition, AJ-Press: Warsaw, p. 18

(6) Peter Senich, 1987, ‘The German Assault Rifle: 1935-1945’, 1st Edition, Paladin Press: Boulder, pp. 309-311