Science and Space History
Discoveries, missions and the people who made them, from early observatories to the space age.
1922
1922 · War & Conflict
Japan Commissions the Aircraft Carrier Hōshō
December 27, 19221915
1915 · Science
Einstein Presents the Final Form of His Gravitational Field Equations
November 25, 19151912
1912 · Science
The Piltdown Fossil Claim Is Announced
December 18, 19121912
1912 · Science
Alfred Wegener presents continental drift
January 6, 19121910
1910 · Technology
Aurel Vlaicu flies his first aircraft
June 17, 19101905
1905 · Science
Einstein Publishes His Mass–Energy Paper
November 21, 19051903
1903 · Technology
The Wright Brothers Make Their First Powered Flights
December 17, 19031901
1901 · Technology
Marconi Reports Receiving a Transatlantic Radio Signal
December 12, 19011898
1898 · Science
The Curies Announce Evidence for Radium
December 26, 18981895
1895 · Film & TV
The Lumière Cinématographe Is Shown to a Paying Paris Audience
December 28, 18951895
1895 · Science
Röntgen Observes X-Rays
November 8, 18951895
1895 · Technology