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Rice University researchers say Edison may have accidentally produced graphene while testing a carbon-filament light bulb, since heating carbon-based resistors above 2,000°C can yield turbostratic graphene—suggesting Edison could have encountered graphene long before its formal discovery, though he wouldn’t have known what it was.
Hiram Maxim, an engineer and inventor, developed a novel filament production method that would have made him a household name had Thomas Edison not reportedly made "a clean steal" of his revolutionary technology. Maxim's bulbs outclassed Edison's, but Edison's agile self-promotion and self-proclaimed invention of the light bulb won out, obscuring the contributions of others who were essential to the technology's development. The invention of the light bulb was a decades-long process of incremental changes to create a filament that could be manufactured reliably and extended beyond Edison and Maxim alone.