✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
First railway: 1825; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: 1749–1832 — that is 7 years later.
When the first public railway opened, Goethe was still alive.
Who and what
- First public steam railway1825 · Darlington. Stephenson's locomotive opens the railway age
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832 · German poet and thinker
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