From alchemists who started practicing their trade about the year 1000 to the introduction of the first vacuum pump in the mid-1600s, this long period produced a number of scient… 展开

Scientific discovery stepped up quite a bit in this century, starting with the discovery of oxygen and other gasses to the invention of the electric battery, Benjamin Franklin's experiments wit… 展开

The 1800s saw the synthesis of the first organic compound, vulcanization of rubber, the invention of dynamite, the creation of the Periodic Table, the pasteurization of milk and wine, a… 展开

From the development of the first synthetic resin to discoveries about the nature of radiation and the development of penicillin, this period produced many scientific milestones.… 展开