Inventioneering – Keystone Inventor
December 3, 2025 • EPISODE 289
Roger Billings, Keystone Inventor: The Final Architect of Innovation [Version 1]
How do some inventors create ideas that shape entire industries? Listen as Dr. Roger Billings reflects on his journey as a lifelong inventor and shows how the principles of inventioneering can be applied to make lasting impact. Discover what it takes to go beyond ideas and prototypes to become a “keystone inventor” whose work supports and shapes future innovation. Whether you’re curious about invention, engineering, or the mindset behind breakthrough thinking, this episode offers inspiring insights and practical wisdom from one of today’s leading innovators.
About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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Dr. Billings is very entertaining to watch on Science live!
that experiment was so cool
Dr Billings is amazing and I would love to be as good at science as he is. 🤩🤩🤩🤩
I think it’s cool how the lighter didn’t need to touch the foil!
I liked the part with the LED!
I love how they used Morse Code and through that tried to figure out how to send out messages using radio waves instead of wire
I love Acellus!
Science live is the best
Dr Tobias is my favorite. he’s SOOOOOOOO funny!
I like the tiny steps method. It helps me learn. I love science
R-51 is the best
Science Live is my favorite time of the week!
Those are great study tips!
R-51 is so funny
I still find it super amazing how we have the knowledge to adapt and create so many necessary different things we currently have now. It’s truly incredible. I wonder what wide spread invention we will have in the future.
I love these. Every week over all of this time I love how you implement all of these new things!
These science live sessions are always so fun and interesting!
Science live makes me smarter by the day!!!!
Today’s Science live was honestly one of the best one. I think my favorite part was with the foil balls and the light lit up even when the lighter had no fluid.
That was a really good Science Live! 🧬 🧪
Really cool but I don’t think that I would want a pet Mold my mom wouldn’t let it in the house hahaha
The lighter looks like a magical wand. I really like R51.
Science is magical!
I look forward to science live, every week! It always gives me interesting info that I would have never heard of otherwise.
I love Science Live so much! Amazing demonstration today!
R-51 is hilarious, thank you for these science lives!
So cool! Does it matter what kind of container you use to put the little metal pieces into?
It is pretty cool how science live explains things
Cool video!! The mold was very interesting! And the coherer invention too!! 🙂
i liked how they explained that inventing is really just problem solving
Dr. billing’s is my favorite! he is so funny! he for sure makes these science lives worth watching!
what would be something fun for me to do at home as an experiment that is safe but fun and not to childish? because i wanna experience things i would be experiencing in school if i was in person.
I like the way they demonsrate what they do in the video.
I love watching Science Live!
Science Live and R•51 all the way!!!
It’s cool how Science Live is also like a history lesson!
No, I can’t see. Let me “put on” my glasses. Mr. 51 just needs to “turn on” his glasses.
Science is so cool! i love R-51!!
Do I have to be good at math to be an inventioneer? All the people and processes you mentioned have had math in them, and I’m really bad at math. I do, however, have an intense curiosity for science. I really like to try new things and have tried creating my own things to solve problems.
You will need math at times in your life, especially if you want to invent. Just believe in yourself, and keep up that “intense curiosity for science”!
Ruth, Don’t Worry No One Is Perfect! Never give up because giving up won’t make your dreams come true, “ If you have a dream, hold it tight and never let go!” Because if you do you will be able to do anything, don’t let math get in the way of your career “You Got This!”
:< :3 😀
Science is the reality of magic!
I like getting the history behind inventions we know today.
Do I have to be good at math to be an inventioneer?
how do inventioneers test their ideas to see if they actually work in real life
What a great science live episode !!
This video was amazing I love watching these videos.
Really like inventing and science. Would like Acellus to have more space science classes
This is so cool! AKA awesome! From Ohio
Science Live teaches me really cool things!!
Keep R-51 forever in the science live! So neat, thank you so much!
Science Live is my favorite, I want to be an inventor someday. R51 is so funny!!!
If I were going to mars I’d take my cat with me
Oh R-51! Hahaha. 😀
Very interesting to learn everything that is available thru Acellus. the information available to track course and high school credits is fantastic.
I always enjoy breakthrough moments in science with Dr. Tobias.
Electricity! Imagine what people thought back then….just like magic!
I would take my chicken to mars.
Staying healthy is really important but it’s super amazing how you can lose weight with technology, science truly is amazing.
I love how science explains things we use everyday.
This was very fun and interesting, and one of my favorite parts is always the technology spotlight it was so funny!
I think it’s interesting how we could possibly get the same data points from sweat instead of taking blood!
R51 is the best.
Science Live is an amazing part of my week!!
I love R-51 he’s the best!!!!:)))
I love watching science live it always makes me laugh!
Thank you for teaching us how to be future inventors.
Science Live teaches me so much.
I really enjoy watching the science live, R 51 is always so entertaining and I love learning and seeing your inventions. It is so neat learning about the infer red lights and how the different spectrums work and also your invention with the radio waves. Can’t wait to see the next one.
R51 is so funny !
I love watching experiments!
I think magic is a lot like science… a lot of magic uses science and math.
Science Live is one of my favorite classes.
R 51 is humble🤣😂🤣😂
Science live is so great i learn so much, Dr Tobias is so funny .
I never thought that’s how controllers and TV remotes worked.
Thank you for taking the time to put together these informational shows. Love it.
Science live is such a fun way to learn!
I tried the experiment with the aluminum foil balls: it was so fun!
Hello from Texas, I love Science Live!
We created a coherer as you showed us in the video and it is amazing to really see it work! The difference is that we used a multimeter to measure the energy flow.
It was cool to learn about LED invention.
Science is a lot like magic.
This Science Live was very cool!!
Thank you, Jamie for the advice! I’m certain it will help plenty of students through their journey.
Science live is pretty cool and I like watching this every week
This was such an information video for the week! I love when my mind starts turning and thinking of things i! i have never really noticed! Loved R-51!!
I always laugh out loud at the opening jokes! They’re so funny!
Science live is so fun! I think Science is a lot like magic.
Another great episode of science live!!! Can’t wait for next Wednesday!!!
R51 is so funny😂😂
Learning about the beginnings of LED’s was very informative!
we love R-51! ❤️❤️❤️
It amazes me how much technology has advanced, especially how quickly it’s been able to be advanced.
Love how accessible this was – it actually makes me want to try a few small experiments myself. Looking forward to the next post!
Fascinating breakdown! It’s impressive how clearly you explained something that usually feels so abstract. Really enjoyed this.
I never considered healthcare as a scientific field before, that’s interesting.
Science live is very cool, I love watching every week!!
lot of interesting facts i didnt know about previously DRB is a very good speaker.
Dr.Tobias lesson on LED was really interesting, I love science live !
Science live has to be one of the videos where I learn the most!
It was interesting to learn about the making of LED lights!
I look forward to the kit! It would be cool if you could add lots of different learning kits.
R51 makes me laugh every time.
I loved this weeks teaching about inventioneering and have been loving all the invention things do you think in the future u could teach us more about car motors and how they work?
I loved this week’s science LIVE and R51 is just so funny.
The light experiment looks very interesting and fun
I want to test Rogers Billing’s experiment at my home. It was interesting to see all explorers.
Cassiah from alaska!
That mold is crazy! I didn’t think any thing on could stand radiation let alone grow from it. Also the beginning of the LEDs is cool! I all ways wondered how they were made but I never got the chance to look it up. 🤩🤩🤩🤩
This video really makes you realize how awesome science is!
Science is awesome!
I just love the way they explain everything, it’s so easy to understand!
Those frogs adapting to the radiation by increasing the melanin in their skin is fascinating. I wonder if they are more resistant to skin infections and diseases.
I always love when you do experiments/demonstrations live!! It’s always so cool!!
I agree with a comment here; science IS like magic! Thank you for the broadcast!
The homemade cohere is so cool and looks really fun to make!
Science live is always the highlight of my week!
I love watching these science live videos, I feel like I learn something new and interesting every time!
I hope I can visit you and lady Pajet.
Science has come so far. Can’t wait to see the next ScienceLive!
My favorite part in SCIENCE LIVE is Break Through Moments with Dr. Tobias and R51 of course!!!!!
I sometimes ponder how long it would take for discoveries to be made if the one who made them never existed.
That experiment was awesome!
I love how these videos build my knowledge every week! Truly amazing!!
Dr. Billings experiments are always so interesting and cool
This is so cool! I love R-51!
You guys make learning so much fun
One of my favorite sayings and one that’s mostly holds true it that magic is just science we don’t understand yet.
Love coming to join the science lives!They just get better every time big thanks to Dr billings.
The video this time was very engaging and interesting. The models and example put in into a lot if perspective and made it make a lot more sense.
Fantastic video this week! Looking forward to next week’s video.
Science Live is always the highlight of my week!
Science Live is amazing!
Always appreciate the study tips!
Science live is magic!
I love science and r-51 is really funny!
Will the radiation ever lift in Chernobyl?
I love science and R-51 is funny!
I think this is my one of my favorite episodes so far! Thank you!
Inventors are very important to science. I enjoy watching the experiments. And I think R-51 is very unique and funny.
can radio waves flow only through metals like foil?
I thought it was really interesting when Mr. Billing talked about Heinrich Hertz and how he for the first to produce a visual radio wave. I think its especially cool because even though his coworkers told him that by the rules of chemistry it was impossible he persevered and did it anyways. I think it’s very cool how he was able to do that.
I love watching science live every week!
I enjoy learning new things from the science lives, There is so much science around us.
Science Live is my favorite time of the week!
Science Live is so interesting. I always learn something new!
I enjoy these videos so much, they make me view everything differently.
Cohere kit looks cool!
I LOOOOOOOOOVE SCIENCE LIVE !!!! Thank you Dr Roger Billings! 🙂
Watching the coherer work was really cool!
Tobiases story about LED lights was so cool!
I love science live! R-51 is great!
The light experiment was interesting to me. Science is not boring.
Science Live was great! And R51 was as hilarious as always!!
I hope to be a keystone inventor when I grow up!
I learned so much about science! its my favorite subject!
I loved the part about radio signals
I enjoy these videos they make me think and intrigued on how things work and why! Thank you. 🙂
This is awesome. Thank you for this live. I learned a lot
I am learning a lot with Dr. Billings!!
these are the best!!!
The coherer is a great invention.
I love science Live! Inventioneering is very cool.
I had no idea about the infrared light is invisible light and how the Father of LED light was able to use it to create LED light as we know it today.
I cannot stop expressing how much I love Acellus. It’s helped me out so much.
I love science 💖
The infrared part was awesome! i also loved the lighter with the light part
It’s cool how you made a hydrogen car!
I really love learning about innovation!!
Science live is the best
Whenever I have something moldy in my room, I start to get sick. How would scientists prevent the astronauts heading to Mars from also getting sick due to the long exposure to mold?
I really love science, it is my favorite subject to learn. I always feel like I’m learning new things.
Science live is so fun I can’t wait to learn more!!!
Science live is good and I love Acellus Academy 🙂
It’s funny how R51 threw away the lighter and used the red cable instead to lit up the glass of tiny foil balls. I like the show, it’s magic watching the tiny balls in a glass and lit up with lighter and go off when you tap it.
Cool show!
I really enjoyed the experiment with the aluminum balls and radio waves. i might buy the kit from the online store.
Isaiah
I liked Dr. Billings experiment with the tin foil. I want to try it myself!