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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This episode was really interesting, learning about the new space telescope, the i-phone, and the Edison Effect.
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In this whole time I thought that Thomas Edison was the one who created the light bulb, but now I know that he was the one who saw an effect that maybe he could make the light bulb to work much better.
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what’s the coolest invention you’ve ever made and why?
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Did the touch screen on the Iphone take as much effort to press as the stylist?
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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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