According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...
Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...
More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...
What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...
A modern materials study suggests that Thomas Edison’s early light bulb experiments may have unknowingly produced graphene decades before the material was formally theorized or isolated. Thomas Edison ...
This reminds us of how, in the 1880s, Edison observed current flowing in one direction through a test light bulb that ...
Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally produced graphene over a ...
Electric light bulbs had been around for decades by the 1870s. Most demonstration systems used arc lamps, which seemed far too bright and burned much too hot for indoor household use. In 1878, Thomas ...