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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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Michels wrote a letter to Thomas Alva Edison, expressing his intention to establish an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ev-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>April 17, 1880 - Cronologia Universale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cronologia-universale.it\/en\/april-17-1880\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"April 17, 1880 - 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