Disc 1. Program 1. 130-1640 : Ptolemy to Galileo
1688-1796 Newton to Nebular Theory of the solary system
1800 Electrolysis reveals new properties of electricity
1808 Atomic theory of matter is announced
1814 Light reveals spectral lines
Disc 2. Program 2. 1820-1845 : 1820 Electromanetism is discovered
1824 Carnot expresses first law of thermodynamics
1830 Charles Lyell publishes 'The Principles of Geology'
1831 Faraday produces electricity fro magnetism
1837 A past Ice Age is theorized by Agassiz
Disc 3. Program 3. 1846-1902 : 1846 The planet Nepture is doscovered
1864 Maxwell's equations unify electricity and magnetism
1869 The first periodic table
1895-6 X-rays and radioactivity are discovered
1897 First subatomic particle found: the elctron
1900 Principle of quantum physics established by Max Planck.
Disc 4. Program 4. 1903-1928 : 1903 Chaos theory
1905 Einstein's theories of special and general relativity
1907 B.B. Boltwood proposes radioactive decay be used to date the earth
1912 Alfred Wegener proposes continental drift theory
1925 Wave-particle duality and the uncertainity principle
Disc 5. Program 5. 1929-2004 : 1929 Edwin Hubble initiates the idea of an expanding universe
1942 Manhattan project creates first self-sustaining chain reaction
1963 Maaretn Schmidt discovers quasars
1964 Murray Gell-Mann postualtes the existence of quarks
1867 White dwarfs, neutron stars, pulsars and black holes
1990 The great attractor and dark matter
2004 Organic matrial found on extrasolar planet.
