Journey through humanity’s greatest discoveries and forgotten innovations. From ancient inventions and scientific breakthroughs to natural phenomena and technological mysteries that changed the course of history.
The Carrington Event: The Solar Storm That Could End Modern Civilisation On the morning of the 1st of September 1859, a quiet English astronomer sitting in his private observatory in the small town of Redhill, Surrey, was doing what he did most mornings. He was carefully sketching the sunspots on the surface of the sun….
The Baghdad Battery: Did Ancient People Discover Electricity? In 1938, an Austrian archaeologist named Wilhelm König was sorting through a collection of artifacts at the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad when he came across something deeply unusual. It was a small clay jar about 14 centimetres tall and it was sealed with asphalt and…
The Antikythera Mechanism – Ancient Greece Built a Computer 2000 Years Ago. In 1901, a group of sponge divers sheltering from a storm off the Greek island of Antikythera made one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the history of archaeology. On the seafloor, at a depth of around 45 metres, lay the wreck of…