History

100 Discoveries presents the greatest 100 breakthroughs in science and technology, medicine and the major areas of human endeavour over the past 10,000 years.

Throughout history, momentous, enabling discoveries have led to a giant leap in our understanding of the workings of the universe and fast-tracked human progress.

• the discovery of metals
• the invention of writing
• the identification of the Earth's shape ans size
• the invention of the microscope
• the invention of the internal combustion engine
• the discovery of petroleum
• the discovery of anaesthetics
• the invention of the digital computer
• the identification of the first planets outside the solar system
• the discovery of the polymerase chain reaction

Learn about the development of agriculture in 10,000 BC, the discovery of genomics and the unravelling and manipulation of genes in living things, among many other discoveries explained in Peter Macinnis' insightful and engaging text.