A Monument to Firsts
Cuneiform script pressed into wet clay in ancient Sumer. Symbols for grain, cattle, and commerce -- humanity's first attempt to make thought permanent.
Gutenberg's movable type press produces the Bible. Information breaks free from the monastery.
Wright Flyer, 12 seconds, 120 feet. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Hillary and Tenzing stand on Everest. 29,032 feet above sea level.
Sputnik 1 orbits Earth, beeping a signal that changes everything. The Space Age begins with a polished aluminum sphere the size of a beach ball.
Neil Armstrong's boot presses into lunar regolith. One small step. The bootprint may last 10 million years.
info.cern.ch. Tim Berners-Lee. A page about the World Wide Web project itself.
Dolly the sheep. Somatic cell nuclear transfer. Biology will never be the same.
CERN confirms the particle that gives mass to matter. The Standard Model is complete -- or is it?
NIF achieves net energy gain. The power of stars, briefly, in a laboratory in California.