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Comment author: TsviBT 08 May 2013 10:35:15PM 10 points [-]

Yeah, blunder. Wikipedia says:

In the 1820s both John Herschel and William H. F. Talbot made systematic observations of salts using flame spectroscopy. In 1835, Charles Wheatstone reported that different metals could be easily distinguished by the different bright lines in the emission spectra of their sparks, thereby introducing an alternative mechanism to flame spectroscopy.

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