Popular Science | 146 Years of Popular Science @popularscience | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
We took 146 years of Popular Science illustrations and covers to animate a kind of PopSci universe—a timeline of great moments in science history!

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The cool thing about working for Popular Science is getting to say you work for a magazine that’s 146 years old. Think on that for a second. ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX YEARS OF POPULAR SCIENCE. Einstein wasn’t even born when the first issue mailed out. (For the record, baby Al came on the scene in 1879—seven years after PopSci number one.)

Well, we here at PopSci thought about all this and more. What we wound up exploring is what the universe looks like after 146 years of Popular Science.

Because in the last century and a half of unprecedented discovery and advancement, PopSci has done more than just tell you about it in a magazine. We’ve taken up real estate in your brain and painted a picture of what the world—through those discoveries and advancements—truly looks like.

So, we took 146 years of Popular Science art and illustrations to show you what we mean (also, Neil deGrasse Tyson may or may not eat Pluto in this video)…

-Video by-

Animation: Jason Drakeford
Producer: Tom McNamara
Producer: Eleanor Cummins
Researcher: Lexi Krupp
Researcher: Anna Brooks

Thank you: Jane Goodall Institute, NASA

As always, for more Popular Science go to www.popsci.com!

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-Timeline-

This is what the universe looks like after 146 years of Popular Science

1872 - Issue one of Popular Science

1886 - Electromagnetic waves confirmed by Heinrich Hertz

1895 - X-rays discovered by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen

1898 - Polonium and radium discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie

1903 - First flight by the Wright Brothers

1910 - White dwarf first confirmed

1911 - Atomic nucleus discovered

1915 - Gas masks invented

1917 - Flying car first concept

1928 - Penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic, discovered

1930 - Pluto observed by Clyde Tombaugh

1931 - Scientists make a volcano erupt (for fun)

1945 - First nuke detonated

1957 - Laika, the first dog in space

1960 - Deepest part of the ocean explored (35,797 feet)

1960 - Jane Goodall shows how primates use tools

1963 - Plate tectonics confirmed

1969 - First humans on the moon (Apollo 11)

1970 - Clean Air Act passed

1970s - 1980s - Vera Rubin shows how dark matter interacts with the universe

1977 - First whale fall discovered

1984 - First Macintosh computer

1993 - Discovery of first fossil embryo of meat-eating dinosaur

1996 - Dolly the sheep is cloned

1998 - First part of international space station launched

2003 - Human Genome sequenced

2006 - Pluto downgraded to a “dwarf planet”

2009 - Astronaut Leland Melvin sneaks his dog into his official NASA portrait

2015 - LIGO detects gravitational waves

2017 - Trappist-1 Solar System discovered (including, maybe three future Earths?)