Science Timeline

  • 3500 BCE

    The wheel is invented in ancient Mesopotamia

  • 323 BCE

    Euclid deduces the founding principles of Geometry

  • 105

    Cai Lun develops papermaking process in China during Han dynasty

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

  • Sir Isaac Newton publishes his three universal laws of motion

  • Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is electrical in nature through his kite experiment

  • Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev publishes the first periodic table

  • Alexander Graham Bell patents his design for the first telephone

  • The Wright Brothers fly the first successful version of the modern airplane

  • Alexander Fleming discovers the first antibiotic, Penicillin

  • Watson and Crick discover the double-helix structure of DNA

  • Apollo 11 completes the first moon landing

  • Apple releases the first iPhone model

  • Scientists discover water on Mars