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

Science and Technology
The Sky HISTORY brand logo
999 emergency number first introduced

Science and Technology
The Sky HISTORY brand logo
Heimlich manoeuvre instructions first published

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

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

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

Science and Technology
The Sky HISTORY brand logo
First cash machine installed in UK

Science and Technology
Harry S. Truman Presidentail dollar coin
President Truman makes the first ever televised presidential address

Science and Technology
Painting of a ceremony marking the completion of the railroad
The Transcontinental Railroad is completed

American History
Super full moon with dark background. Madrid, Spain, Europe. Horizontal Photography.
The Great Moon Hoax begins

Science and Technology
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

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

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

Science and Technology
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

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

Science and Technology
Speedometer in the car
Blind driver breaks land-speed record

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

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

Science and Technology

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