Science & Invention

Bite-sized historical stories about Science & Invention — sorted chronologically on tildeer.

• Ötzi the Iceman
• Library of Alexandria
• The Antikythera Mechanism
• The Voynich Manuscript
• Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press
• The Galileo Affair
• The Vasa
• Jean-Baptiste Denis and the Blood Transfusion Race
• The Etna Lava Diversion of 1669
• John Harrison and the Longitude Problem
• Émilie du Châtelet
• Benjamin Franklin
• Mary Toft
• The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
• The Mechanical Turk
• Robert Liston
• Mary Shelley
• Balmis Expedition
• Ada Lovelace
• Year Without a Summer
• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Louis Pasteur
• Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the Beagle
• Great Moon Hoax
• The Åland Shipwreck Champagne
• The Discovery of Neptune
• Phineas Gage
• Florence Nightingale
• Nikola Tesla
• The Great Stink