Thomas Edison, of course, despised scientists. Attempting to prevent the glass in a light bulb discolouring, he put a small metal plate inside the bulb only to find an electric current flowing through the metal plate.
This, of course, was impossible because the leading scientists of the day had established that electric current could not cross a vacuum.
So the Edison Effect was born, although no one could explain it. But loads of scientists tried to.
This amused Edison who couldn't give a fig why it worked remarking to a friend: "It has, I am told, a very important bearing on some laws now being formulated by the Bulge-headed fraternity of the Savanic world."
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