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Science and Technology

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

Stephen Payne, OBE

'Secrets of the Lost Liners': Stephen Payne on designing the Queen Mary 2
Albert Einstein during a lecture in 1921

10 things you never knew about Albert Einstein
An old Game Boy showing a game of Tetris

The history of Tetris: The Soviet mind game
The 'Chernobyl Sarcophagus Memorial' statue, depicting a pair of hands holding a nuclear power plant, in front of the real Chernobyl power plant and sarcophagus

The real story of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear disaster in history
The Clayton Barlow knife

60 Seconds of Skill: Sheffield knife-maker Michael May
Sarah Cruddas

Sarah Cruddas: 'The New Space Race'
Sarah Cruddas pictured holding 'Look Up' and 'The Space Race'

Win a copy of 'Look Up: Our story with the stars' a new book by Sarah Cruddas
Sarah Cruddas and the galaxy

I think we're alone now: Does life exist on other planets?
Army officers inspect the wreckage of Messerschmitt

5 facts about the Battle of Britain you might not have known
Adam Jenkins

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with archery instructor Adam Jenkins
Spoon carving

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with spoon carver Jojo Wood

Leather worker Hamish Lamley

60 Seconds of Skill: Q&A with leather worker Hamish Lamley
Alexander Graham Bell

Great Scottish inventors who changed the course of history
QR code scanning payment and verification. Hand using mobile smart phone scan QR code

7 important Japanese inventions from history
An edited photograph of a person holding a phone with emojis floating from the screen

The history of emojis
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