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
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Bi Sheng invents movable type (1040)
- Watson and Crick discover DNA structure (1953)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Tohoku earthquake and Fukushima disaster (2011)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- First moon landing (1969)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Trinity test (first atomic bomb) (1945)
- Marie Curie (1867)
- General relativity published (1915)
- Song invention of gunpowder (950)
- Gunpowder developed in China (850)
- Human Genome Project completed (2003)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
- Curie discovers polonium and radium (1898)