--- title: Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene | daily.dev description: Researchers at Rice University discovered that Thomas Edison may have accidentally created graphene in the 1880s while testing carbon-based filaments for light... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/thomas-edison-may-have-discovered-graphene-sv42wwlsk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene | daily.dev og:description: Researchers at Rice University discovered that Thomas Edison may have accidentally created graphene in the 1880s while testing carbon-based filaments for light... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/thomas-edison-may-have-discovered-graphene-sv42wwlsk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Sv42WwlSk.png og:image:alt: Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Thomas Edison May Have Discovered Graphene **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Researchers at Rice University discovered that Thomas Edison may have accidentally created graphene in the 1880s while testing carbon-based filaments for light bulbs. By heating carbon-based resistors to over 2,000°C, Edison's experiments could have produced turbostratic graphene, though he wouldn't have known to look for it or understand its significance. This parallels Edison's earlier observation of the thermionic effect, which he noted as a curiosity but didn't fully understand until Fleming's work in 1904. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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