Science and Technology

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

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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Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the first iPhone that was introduced at Macworld on January 9, 2007 in San Francisco, California (Getty).
First generation iPhone goes on sale in US

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First cash machine installed in UK

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Fifth Gear

Project Impossible

Ultimate Vehicles

Search for the Tesla Files

Forged In Fire: Tournament of Champions
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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60 years of space travel: From Yuri Gagarin to the Mars Rover

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Christopher Mellon

Unidentified
Luis Elizondo

Unidentified
Tom DeLonge

Unidentified
Win a copy of Scientifica Historica by Brian Clegg

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A NASA picture shows astronaut Fred Haise working inside the Apollo 13 lunar module after the explosion of the ship's oxygen tanks on April 13, 1970 (Getty).
The Rescue of Apollo 13

Highway Thru Hell
WW2 British Command Centres

Hitler
Heddy Lamarr and her plans for her secret communications system that laid the groundwork for later wireless communications like WiFI
The life of Hedy Lamarr: history’s forgotten Hollywood genius

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The Strid'
The UK’s most dangerous rivers

River Hunters
Meet comedian Tony Law, pictured above hugging his favourite WW2 aircraft.
Tony Law on the de Havilland Mosquito

WW2 Treasure Hunters
Top 10 Movie Cars of All Time

Big Easy Motors
The de Havilland Mosquito - the 'wooden wonder'

WW2 Treasure Hunters
Simple Inventions that Changed the World

Duck Dynasty
Mankind By the Numbers

Mankind The Story of All of Us
The Bizarre History of Skinwalker Ranch

Curse of Skinwalker Ranch