✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
Edison's lamp: 1879; Charles Darwin: 1809–1882 — that is 3 years later.
When Edison made his light bulb, Charles Darwin was still alive.
Who and what
- Edison's incandescent lamp1879 · Menlo Park. A carbon filament and a power grid light up cities
- Charles Darwin1809–1882 · naturalist, author of evolutionary theory
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