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1967:
The world’s first human heart transplant made both patient and surgeon celebrities overnight.
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1953:
DNA contains the genetic information needed to build life.
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1946:
Plastics are used to make a huge variety of products in our homes, offices and sometimes even inside our bodies.
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1945:
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on August 6th and 9th 1945 ended World War Two.
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1932:
The phrase ‘splitting the atom’ is often quoted as a benchmark for scientific discovery.
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1927:
German physicist Werner Heisenberg made great contributions to a vital area of modern physics, quantum theory.
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1924:
Edwin Hubble discovered that the spiral of stars known as Andromeda was a galaxy well beyond our own Milky Way.
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1905:
Most people associate Albert Einstein, probably the most famous scientist of all time, with a single equation: E = mc2.
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1903:
Air travel is so commonplace it is hard to believe the first powered flight came little more than a century ago.
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1940:
The era of antibiotics, launched by Alexander Fleming, revolutionised the treatment of bacterial infections.
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1928:
Sliced bread is the classic example of a small idea that made a big difference to peoples lives.
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1903:
Rockets had been used in battle for centuries before Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dreamed of the possibility of space flight.
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1897:
Radio communications are used to broadcast radio and television as well as mobile phone signals.
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1896:
The discovery of the X-ray was met with great excitement around the world, having obvious benefits for medicine.
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1886:
The first commercially available automobile looked more like a child’s tricycle than a car.
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1880:
Thomas Alva Edison was a remarkable man whose refinement of the light bulb ushered in the age of electricity.
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1862:
The french chemist Louis Pasteur is best known for making milk, wine and beer safe to drink by using heat.
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1858:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was a prolific and visionary engineer.
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