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Edison's 1879 light bulb may have accidentally produced graphene, scientists say

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...

Edison may have unknowingly created graphene with his 1879 light bulb

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Thomas Edison May Have Created a Miracle Material Before Physics Knew It Existed

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 ...
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Did Thomas Edison Create Graphene More Than 130 Years Before it Was Officially Invented?

Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

Edison's 1879 bulb experiments may have unintentionally produced graphene

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS ...
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Did Edison Make a 'Wonder Material' 125 Years Before Its Official Creation?

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving ...