How Light Bulb Invented Quantum Physics
Channel: Experientia
Date: 2023-10-03

A Fascinating Piece of history and how it inspired Physicist to accidentally discover Quantum Physics or Mechanics.

Research, Edited and Presented by @RahulAhire 

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Did light bulb companies commission Planck to study black body radiation? - https://hsm.stackexchange.com/q/5452

Links to all the additional info and references -
1. Download all the documents all at once - https://tinyurl.com/mr25wyed

2. A Concise History of the Blackbody Radiation - https://tinyurl.com/3eyyzpkj
3. A Study on Black-Body Radiation : Classical and Binary Photons - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/A%20Study%20on%20Black-Body%20Radiation%20-%20Classical%20and%20Binary%20Photons.pdf
4. An International Review of Spectroscopy And Astronomical Physics- https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/AN%20INTERNATIONAL%20REVIEW%20OF%20SPECTROSCOPY.pdf
5. The Incandescent Light Bulb and the Mystery of the Centennial Bulb - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Enabling%20Tech%20Centennial%20Bulb.pdf
6. Generalization of Kirchhoffs Law - The inherent relations between quantum efficiency and emissivity - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Generalization%20of%20Kirchhoffs%20Law%20-%20The%20inherent%20relations%20between%20quantum%20efficiency%20and%20emissivity.pdf
7. Irving Langmuir and the light bulb Plasma Sources Science and Technology - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Irving%20Langmuir%20and%20the%20light%20bulb%20Plasma%20Sources%20Science%20and%20Technology.pdf
8. Making light work - practices and practitioners of photometry - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Making%20light%20work%20-%20practices%20and%20practitioners%20of%20photometry.pdf
9. Max Planck - Nobel Lecture_ The Genesis and Present State of Development of the Quantum Theory - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Max%20Planck%20-%20Nobel%20Lecture_%20The%20Genesis%20and%20Present%20State%20of%20Development%20of%20the%20Quantum%20Theory.pdf
10. Max Planck and the birth of the quantum hypothesis - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Max%20Planck%20and%20the%20birth%20of%20the%20quantum%20hypothesis.pdf
11. Measurement of Planck constant through Black Body Radiation - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Measurement%20of%20Planck%20constant%20through%20Black%20Body%20Radiation.pdf
12. On the Relationship between the Second Fundamental Theorem of the Mechanical Theory of Heat and Probability Calculations Regarding the Conditions for Thermal Equilibrium - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/On%20the%20Relationship%20between%20the%20Second%20Fundamental%20Theorem%20of%20the%20Mechanical%20Theory%20of%20Heat%20and%20Probability%20Calculations%20Regarding%20the%20Conditions%20for%20Thermal%20Equilibrium.pdf
13. On the Theory of the Energy Distribution Law of the Normal Spectrum Max Planck - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/On%20the%20Theory%20of%20the%20Energy%20Distribution%20Law%20of%20the%20Normal%20Spectrum%20Max%20Planck.pdf
14. Plancks Legacy to Statistical Mechanics - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/Plancks%20Legacy%20to%20Statistical%20Mechanics.pdf
15. Practical treatise on the manufacturing and distribution of coal-gas - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/PRACTICAL%20TREATISE%20ON%20THE%20MANUFACTURE%20AND%20DISTRIBUTION%20OF%20COAL-GAS.pdf
16. PTR/PTB: 125 years of metrological research - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/PTB-Mitteilungen_2012_Heft_2.de.en.pdf
17. History of PTR - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/PTR_and_PTB_History_of_an_Institution.pdf
18. The electric-lamp industry - technological change and economic development from 1800 to 1947 - https://document.experientia.in/How%20Light%20Bulb%20Invented%20Quantum%20Physics/The%20electric-lamp%20industry%20-%20technological%20change%20and%20economic%20development%20from%201800%20to%201947.pdf
19. The standardisation of light and photometry – A historical review - https://tinyurl.com/4ab7vz88
20. Werner Siemens and the Origin of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, 1872-1887 - https://tinyurl.com/ynjbmp64
21. Wilhelm Wien – Nobel Lecture - https://tinyurl.com/2p4a59jf