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The Edison Effect is a fact about heated metal wire- discovered by a British scientist, Frederick Guthrie, in 1873, but named after Edison when the latter independently discovered it in 1880- that it will emit a current of negative charge into a vacuum, and the size of this current depends on the voltage across the metal wire. It states that a voltage across a wire results in a vacuum emission of current is the basis for the vacuum tube, an invention that Edison could have easily developed but decided not to pursue.

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