Science & Inventions Timeline

Landmark discoveries and inventions frequently asked in Everyday Science papers.

1687

Newton's Principia

Laws of motion and universal gravitation published.

1876

Telephone

Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

1895

X-Rays

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays.

1928

Penicillin

Alexander Fleming discovered the first antibiotic.

1953

Structure of DNA

Watson and Crick described the double helix.

1969

Moon Landing

Apollo 11 landed humans on the Moon.