Timelines tagged “history-of-science”
4 timelines
- Climate Change
The science of human-caused warming, from Fourier's work in 1824 through greenhouse-gas experiments, measurements, climate models and international assessments to observations reported in 2026.
- Ocean Exploration
Scientific exploration of the sea from eighteenth-century measurements to deep submersibles, hydrothermal vents, autonomous floats and the global seafloor-mapping effort, through 2025.
- Ozone Layer
The discovery, measurement and protection of stratospheric ozone, from identifying ozone in 1840 to the Antarctic ozone hole, international chemical controls and evidence of recovery through 2023.
- Plate Tectonics
How moving continents became a testable theory of Earth, from matching coastlines in 1596 through seafloor spreading and plate models to direct measurements of motion in the 1990s.