Science & Technology
Explore Science & Technology on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction (1831)
- First general-purpose electronic computer (ENIAC) (1946)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- General relativity published (1915)
- Marie Curie (1867)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)