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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
Sky HISTORY - This Day in HISTORY

999 emergency number first introduced
Sky HISTORY - This Day in HISTORY

Heimlich manoeuvre instructions first published
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Nick Masset in 2010

First televised Major League Baseball game is broadcast
de Havilland Comet Airliner 1XB at the RAF Museum

First jet airliner makes its maiden flight
A man's holding first generation iPhone

First generation iPhone goes on sale in US
Sky HISTORY - This Day in HISTORY

First cash machine installed in UK
Painting of a ceremony marking the completion of the railroad

The Transcontinental Railroad is completed
Super full moon with dark background. Madrid, Spain, Europe. Horizontal Photography.

The Great Moon Hoax begins
Orville Wright 1871-1948 in flight over treetops covering a distance of approximately 1 760 feet in 40 1/5 seconds at Huffman Prairie Dayton Ohio. November 16 1904.

The first aeroplane takes flight
Red laser beams on black background

Without It, Laser Eye Surgery Would Be Just Eye Surgery
Blue DNA structure isolated background. 3D illustration

Watson and Crick discover chemical structure of DNA
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
POLAND - CIRCA 1964: stamp printed by Poland, shows The crew of the spaceship Voskhod-1, circa 1964

USSR leads the space race
Speedometer in the car

Blind driver breaks land-speed record
Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil - May 4, 2021: logo of the Volkswagen car factory, in Taubaté.

Volkswagen’s “Dream Factory” opens in Resende, Brazil

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

Albert Einstein is born

Fifth Gear

Project Impossible

Search for the Tesla Files

Forged In Fire: Tournament of Champions
James Webb telescope in outer space

James Webb: The 'time-travelling' space telescope
William Shatner

William Shatner and the history of civilan space travel
Pliny watched over by a flying saucer

History's most famous UFO sightings
Anna Whitty

WW2 Mystery: Foo Fighters - Anna Whiity Interview
Dr Butcher and Mr Humble

The unbelievable story of world’s first successful head transplant

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
A photograph of a traditional Japanese kitchen knife

Traditional Japanese knives and their uses