@inapineforest Reminded me of 'View of Dresden by Moonlight' (1839) by Johan Christian Dahl...
In 1800, US-engineer Robert Fulton built a practical experimental manually-propelled naval submarine, the Nautilus: Dutch engineer Cornelius Drebble built the first semi-submersible in 1620 for the English navy, but the Nautilus was the first fully-submersible submarine.
In 1947, Dutch astrophysicist Dr Bart Bok identified & defined globules of dark & dense molecular clouds that give rise to stellar formation via collapse in gravitational pressure; resulting in binary & multiple star systems, commonly. Our solar system is from different clouds.
In 1940, US-chemist Dr Louis Hammett coined the term 'physical organic chemistry'; the relationship between chemical structures & reactivity. The concept has enhanced research into kinetic energy of chemical interactions and organic molecular dynamics.
In 1936, Soviet novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili published 'A Woman's Burden': it reveals the raw psyche of Bolsheviks and Tsarists (i.e. parallels). For this, Joseph Stalin had him arrested, tortured and executed. The book would remain banned until after Stalin's death.
In 1927, German physicists Dr Fritz London & Dr Walter Heitler applied quantum mechanics (Schrödinger equation of 1925) to explain covalent bonding in the hydrogen molecule: this significantly-enhances astrophysics research of hydrogen (e.g. molecular clouds)...
In 1924, English scientist Dr J. B. S. Haldane coined the term 'ectogenesis', to describe the growth of mammalian embryos in artificial environments. Later, applied to debate on differences in reproductive roles: the argument that an artificial womb would be safer for women.
In 1924, US-astrophysicist Dr Edwin Hubble announced his finding that Andromeda (previously, believed to be a nebula) is another galaxy and that The Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the known-Universe. This altered scientific research of space, significantly.
In 1923, Austrian novelist Felix Salten published 'Bambi, A Life in the Woods', one of the first post-war environmental protection novels: adapted into an animated film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Productions in 1942, while the human world was busy destroying itself and Nature...
In 1918, the last known Carolina parakeet (the only parrot species native to the eastern USA) died in Cincinnati Zoo; declared extinct in 1939. All evidence points to human activities (e.g. deforestation) being the main reason for their extinction.