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Amalgam fillings
editSome sources, such as this one, claim that Evans invented the silver amalgam filling, but the amalgam (dentistry) article disputes this. I have checked the source there (Ferracane, Jack L. (2001). Materials in Dentistry: Principles and Applications. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 3. ISBN 0781727332. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)), which seems to be reliable, and it says what the "amalgam" article does: the amalgam filling wasinvented in France in the early 1800's and came to the United States in the 1830's; this rules out its having been invented by Evans.
The American Text-book of Operative Dentistry attributes the first amalgam filling to "Taveau"; it also mentions the later use, in 1849, of a tin-cadmium amalgam by Thomas Evans. —Dominus (talk) 14:32, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
Merge from French Wikipedia
editTo my surprise, the French Wikipedia version of this article is more comprehensive than this one. If possible, we should try to merge information from there to here. —Mark Dominus (talk) 14:47, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
Source of Wealth
editThis must be OR, I suppose, but I know from a close relative, my grandmother in fact, who knew Evans quite well when she was a girl, that he made a lot of money by becoming privy in advance to Haussmann's plans for Paris, and buying up land that would be required. Seadowns (talk) 22:38, 16 May 2020 (UTC)