SCIENCE DISCOVERIES

500 B.C. Egyptian & Mesopotamia exceled in Astronomy    
440 B.C. Democritus concept ATOM 420 B.C. Greek
384 B.C. Aristotle classifies 500 animal species 322 B.C. Greek
384 B.C. Aristotle astronomy, anatomy & physics 322 B.C. Greek
384 B.C. Aristotle Earth center of the Universe 322 B.C. Greek
389 A.D. Library of Alexander is destroyed .5M Documents   Greek
530 A.D. Decline of Science in Europe 1000 A.D.  
700 A.D. Roman Empire fell & Dark Ages    
700 A.D. Islamic Science flourishes 1300 A.D.  
832 A.D. Ptolemy's Astronomy are translated 'House of Wisdom'   Greek
1225 A.D. Thomas Aquinas Earth center of the Universe 1519 A.D. Greek
1452 A.D. Leonardo da Vinci Engineering , Art & Architecture 1543 A.D. Rome
1473 A.D. Nicholas: Copernicus Sun center of the Universe 1543 A.D. Greek
1475 A.D. Michelangelo Engineering , Art & Architecture 1564 A.D. Rome
1543 A.D. Nicholas Copernicus Publishes Sun centered theory 1543 A.D. Greek
1564 A.D.
 		Galileo Galilei 1st Telescope confirmed Sun centered
Universe: both treated as heretics by the Church 		1642 A.D. Greek
1620 A.D. Galileo Galilei Sees Jupiter's moons & Saturn's rings   Greek
1642 A.D. Sir Isaac Newton formulatedGravity 1727 A.D. England
1665 A.D. Robert Hooke Describes cell structure 1st time   Holland
1676 A.D. Ole Romer Light travels at a finite speed   Danish
1687 A.D.
 		Sir Isaac Newton ;Principia Mathematica is published:
mechanics, gravity, motion, calculus 		  England
1731 A.D.
 		John Hadley invents the quadrant:
altitude of the sun GPS using a star 		  England
1733 A.D. John Kay Flying shuttle loom starts industrial revolution    
1740 A.D. Steam Engines start Industrial Revolution in England 1780 A.D. England
1748 A.D. William Watson invents electricity ;rays of electricity in a tube    
1752 A.D. Benjamin Franklin proves lightning is a form of electricity    
1779 A.D. Watt's 1st steam mills   England
1784 A.D. Benjamin Franklin invents 1st bifocal eyeglasses   USA
1789 A.D. Martin Heinrich Klaproth discovers Uranium U 92 [234.0]    
1790 A.D. John Greenwood invents 1st Dental drill    
1800 A.D. William Herschel discovers Infrared Radiation   England
1800 A.D. A. Volta invents battery to store electricity   Italy
1804 A.D. Nicholas Appert 1st can & canning factory to preserve food    
1837 A.D.
 		Samuel Morse Invents Telegraph operator key to send
electric pulses of dots and dashes 		  England
1851 A.D.
 		Leon Foucault demonstrates Earth's rotation
with a Pendulum on Church 		  England
1858 A.D. Max Planck Quantum Theory 1947 A.D. England
1859 A.D.
 		Charles Darwin Publishes Origin of the Species:
organic evolution 		  England
1862 A.D. Richard Jordan Gatling invents 1st machine gun    
1869 A.D. 1st Transcontinental Railroad route ;west & east join at Utah    
1869 A.D. Dmitry Mendeleev publish Periodic Table 1870 A.D. USSR
1869 A.D. Julius Lothar Meyer publish Periodic Table 1870 A.D. USSR
1873 A.D. James Clark Maxwell Basic laws of Electromagnetism   England
1879 A.D. 1st Public Telephone   England
1879 A.D. Albert Einstein General Theory of Relativity 1955 A.D. Swiss
1885 A.D. 1st gas cas Mercedes-Bentz by K. Bentz & G. Daimler    
1888 A.D. Heinrich hertz Theory to produce Radio Waves   USSR
1889 A.D. the Eiffel Tower Paris by G. Eiffel    
1893 A.D.
 		Chicago's Columbian Exposition lit with Edison's light bulbs:
21M people 		   
1895 A.D. MarcheseGuglielmo Marconi Invents Wireless Tlegraphy   Canada
1895 A.D. Wilheim K. Roentgen Discovers X-rays   Germany
1897 A.D. Joseph John Thompson Discovers the Electron   England
1898 A.D. Marrie, died of Lukemia, & Pierre Curie Discovers radioactivity   France
1900 A.D. Kodak's 1st Brownie camara    
1903 A.D. Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk 1st flight 852ft. 59 s.   Swiss
1905 A.D. Albert Einstein Published relativity starts atomic research   Swiss
1913 A.D.
 		Neils Bohr develops nuclear model of atom:
combines nuclear with quantum theuries		  Swiss
1916 A.D. Albert Einstein Published his Theory of Relativity   Swiss
1926 A.D. Kodak's 1st 16mm movie motion-picture film    
1929 A.D.
 		Edwin Hubble Fawaway Galaxies:
move away faster then nearer ones 		  England
1929 A.D. C. Lindberg TWA 1st passenger flight coast to coast    
1933 A.D. 1st Electron Microscope    
1939 A.D. 1st TV Broadcast RCA at NY World's Fair    
1948 A.D. Discovery of Transistor    
1957 A.D. Conceived Laser Technology    
1964 A.D. Quark Theory proposed    
1971 A.D. Introduction of the Microprocessor or Chip    
1976 A.D. Concept of the Universe's 10 Dimensions    
2000 A.D.      
ENGINEER'S MECHANICAL GADGET


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