History of Electricity – Science of shocks
History of electricity: A bolt of lightning in the sky Why did it take so long to control electricity? Like other inventions, electricity took thousands of years to develop. For [...]
History of electricity: A bolt of lightning in the sky Why did it take so long to control electricity? Like other inventions, electricity took thousands of years to develop. For [...]
Caravels, about 1500 AD (Livro das Fortalezas de Duarte Damas) Frame-first ship construction The Early Middle Ages - about 500 AD - brought a major change in Mediterranean ship-building. Instead of putting the planks together [...]
Astrolabe in Hebrew, probably from Spain (1300s AD) In the early Middle Ages, most people in Europe were too poor to have much time for astronomy. But some people were still interested in [...]
Medieval Islamic science: Al Tusi's diagram of linear motion from circular motion Indian and African science In the Early Middle Ages, before the formation of the Islamic Empire, Buddhists ran the world's biggest [...]
An Islamic astrolabe (832 AD) Who invented the astrolabe? About 140 BC, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes invented the science of trigonometry. What's trigonometry? Greek astronomy History of astronomy All our [...]
Early Chinese compass (reconstruction) - a compass project Who invented the compass? Chinese scientists invented the first compasses, around the 200s AD, near the end of the Han Dynasty. Science in [...]
Chinese science: a double-action piston box bellows (China) What are some Chinese inventions? Chinese scientists started inventing a lot of new things around 500 BC, during the Warring States period. [...]