John Michels wrote a letter to Thomas Alva Edison, expressing his intention to establish an American scientific journal to counter the British Nature, founded by Norman Lockyer for the Draper Expedition to the 1878 eclipse. Edison financed it for the first year and then withdrew. Science magazine would have a glorious future, first under Michels and then under Alexander Graham Bell. Science magazine was founded in 1880 by New York journalist John Michels, but the real protagonists behind the scenes were two giants of innovation: Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell. Edison was the first to finance the project, but he was soon forced to withdraw due to the decline in his reputation, linked to delays in the commercialization of the light bulb. At that point, Bell and his father-in-law, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, took over the journal and entrusted its refoundation to entomologist Samuel H. Scudder, who relaunched it in 1883. A turbulent beginning, but with exceptional sponsors!
