1. Stuff that really effected what science fiction writers wrote If the picture glows, click on it to see a video.

2. 1859: Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species (left) 1877: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone (center) 1890’s: Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio (right)

3. 1903: The Wright brothers fly at Kitty Hawk (left top) 1908: First year of the Model T (left bottom) 1914 – 1918: World War I (right)

4. 1920’s: The Roaring 20’s. Making electricity, telephones, engines, and flight much better 1927: Release of The Jazz Singer – the first talking movie (bottom) 1929: Stock Market crash – Black Monday. Start of the Great Depression 1930’s: The Great Depression 1939: Hitler invades Poland thus starting World War II

5. 1941: Pearl Harbor is attacked 1945: The Enola Gay drops two atomic bombs on Japan (left) 1945: End of World War II and start of the Cold War 1947: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the X-1 (right)

7. 1950 – 1953: The Korean War 1953: Watson and Crick (actually it was Rosiland Franklin) discover the double-helix of DNA 1950’s: TV makes its way into the homes of Americans (left) 1957: Russia launches Sputnik (right)

8. 1961, April: Russian Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space (left) 1961, May: Allan Shepard is the first American in space (right) 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1965: The U.S. sends troops to Vietnam

9. “Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” (5:10) “That’s one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind.” (8:19)

10. 1973: Skylab is the first American space station (left) 1975: Vietnam War ends 1977: Apple IIe is the first personal computer to successfully enter the American home (right) 1979: Three Mile Island accident

11. 1981: Space Shuttle Columbia first orbits the Earth (bottom) 1986: Challenger disaster 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall

12. 1990: The Hubble Telescope is launched (left) 1991: Biosphere II starts its first “mission” (right) Early 90’s the Internet is introduced and starts a revolution Late 90’s the cell phone is introduced and starts a revolution

13. 2003: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 2004: SpaceShipOne is the first reusable private vehicle to enter space and return (left) 2011: Space Shuttle program is retired 2011: Watson beats Ken Jennings in Jeopardy! (right)