Science and Technology

The scientific and technological developments from history that have accelerated human progress.  

An illustration showing Benjamin Franklin flying a kite
Benjamin Franklin flies kite during thunderstorm

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Who you gonna call? 999
999 emergency number first introduced

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Heimlich manoeuvre instructions first published

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Cincinnati Reds pitcher Nick Masset in 2010
First televised Major League Baseball game is broadcast

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de Havilland Comet Airliner 1XB at the RAF Museum
First jet airliner makes its maiden flight

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A man's holding first generation iPhone
First generation iPhone goes on sale in US

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First cash machine installed in UK

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Red laser beams on black background
Without It, Laser Eye Surgery Would Be Just Eye Surgery

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Blue DNA structure isolated background. 3D illustration
Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA

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Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA -2021: U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame statue of Alan Shepard, the first American in space and the fifth person to walk on the Moon.
U.S. sends the first American into space

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POLAND - CIRCA 1964: stamp printed by Poland, shows The crew of the spaceship Voskhod-1, circa 1964
USSR leads the space race

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Speedometer in the car
Blind driver breaks land-speed record

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Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil - May 4, 2021: logo of the Volkswagen car factory, in Taubaté.
Volkswagen’s “Dream Factory” opens in Resende, Brazil

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Wax figure of the famous scientist, Albert Einstein from Madame Tussauds
Albert Einstein is born

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Fifth Gear

Project Impossible

Ultimate Vehicles

Search for the Tesla Files

Forged In Fire: Tournament of Champions
William Shatner

William Shatner and the history of civilan space travel

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Pliny watched over by a flying saucer

History's most famous UFO sightings

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Anna Whitty

WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters - Anna Whiity Interview

WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters
Dr Butcher and Mr Humble

The unbelievable story of world’s first successful head transplant

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Photograph of the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference during his visit to Finland.

60 years of space travel: From Yuri Gagarin to the Mars Rover

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Christopher Mellon

Unidentified

Luis Elizondo

Unidentified

Tom DeLonge

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Win a copy of Scientifica Historica by Brian Clegg

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