Highlights scientific and technological innovations between 1900 and 1946, including radio, automobiles, television, antibiotics, radar, and nuclear fission.
Highlights scientific and technological innovations between 1800 and 1900, including photography, evolution, genetics, the periodic table, and the internal combustion engine.
Chronicles the important events, people, and places in Europe during the Renaissance, including the invention of the printing press, the age of discovery, and advances in art, science, and religion.
Highlights scientific and technological innovations from 1946 to the present, including computers, DNA, manned space flight, cloning, and the Internet.
Discusses notable events, people, and locations in classical civilization, including ancient Greece, ancient Rome, the reign of Alexander the Great, and the spread of Christianity.
Chronicles the important events, people, and locations during the Colonial era, including the age of exploration, the settling of North America, the American Revolution, and the colonization of Austra
In only a few decades, new materials, new machines, new sources of power, and new methods of transportation changed the face of the world. Mines, furnaces, and mills formed the basis of towns where th
"Covers two centuries when amateur scientists-- natural philosophers-- began to use close observation and experiment to understand processes that had previously been explained by religion or superstit
Chronicles the notable events, people, and locations during the Industrial Revolution, including advances in transportation, technology, medicine, and agriculture.
