The Edison Effect
December 17, 2025 • EPISODE 291
What if Thomas Edison’s greatest discovery wasn’t the light bulb? In this episode of Science LIVE, Dr. Roger Billings explores the Edison Effect and how Edison’s experiments paved the way for electron tubes and modern electronics. Discover why this overlooked breakthrough mattered then—and why it still shapes technology today.
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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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What first inspired Roger Billings to work with Hydrogen??
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I liked learning about the development of Iphones, I always hear my parents talk about how they had to communicate with friends when they were my age and it makes me wonder what it will be like when I am their age.
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Thank you so much Acellus team for taking the time to make these every week! The Edison Effect is so fascinating, thank you for teaching us about it! I hope everyone has a great winter break, see you next year!
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what’s the coolest invention you’ve ever made and why?
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As always, a fabulous Science Live. See you in the new year!
Did the touch screen on the Iphone take as much effort to press as the stylist?
I liked learning about the original IPhone.
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I loved this week’s episode. My favorite part was the technology spotlight with Dr. John. Learning about how NASA just finished assembling the new space telescope is amazing. The whole year I’ve been wondering when they could finally see what new interesting photos this telescope can see. Knowing that they are going to take photos of the milky way galaxy is extremely exciting to me because we may be able to know if there really is another galaxy just like ours! I love this week’s episode Mr. B. Happy Holidays!
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It’s interesting for me to see old phones like the Nokia phone, I myself have never owned one of those older phones, but I have used them because my grandparents still use phones like that to this day.
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How was electricity thought up?
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Edison was a believer that had work and tenacity navigates the path to success.
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I just notice that this weeks episode is number 291. Any big plans for episode 300? That seems like a big milestone!
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The Eddison effect by Thomas Eddison is one of my favorite effects because it really shows the power of what vacuum tubes can do.
Liked learning about how the iphone keybord was created
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Very cool to learn about the development of the iPhone keyboard!
I think coming up with the Iphone was really cool because it must’ve been cool to go from typing on buttons then to just typing on the screen. This live was really fun to watch!
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Sign language seems to be a rather niche form of communication that would be beneficial for many more people to know!
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What if a spaceship went out of our universe and went to a black hole and went In it and recorded it and we found a whole nother universe galaxy and different planets?
How big was the IPhone when it was invented?
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I think it’s cool that ASL is going to be offered soon. I’m excited!
cool episode! Now I want a telescope so I can see the sky from my room.
The new class looks very interesting.
Thank you!
Edison did a lot for us!
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when did you have the idea for the new Sign language course? I am so excited!! I love sign Language because it is a way to communicate without talking!
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