Milestones:List of Milestones by Region
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DATE
DEDICATED SHORT NAME OF MILESTONE SECTION
Region I
1982 Electrification of NY, NH railroad Connecticut
1987 Two-way Police Radio North Jersey
1987 FM Police Radio Connecticut
Region 2
1985 Westinghouse Atom Smasher Pittsburgh
Region 3
1986 First Central Power Station in South Carolina Coastal South Carolina
Region 4
1977 Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant Northeastern Wisconsin
1987 One-way Police Radio Southeastern Michigan
Region 5
Region 6
1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator San Francisco Bay Area Council
Region 7
1985 Landing of Transatlantic Telegraph Newfoundland-Labrador
Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals Newfoundland-Labrador
Region 8
Region 9
Region 10
MILESTONE DEDICATIONS BY YEAR AND REGION
YEAR DEDICATED SHORT NAME REGION
1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator 6
1985 Landing of transatlantic telegraph 7
Reception of transatlantic radio signals 7
Westinghouse atom smasher 2
1986 First Central station in South Carolina 3
1987 One-way police radio 4
Two-way police radio 1
FM police radio 1
ENIAC 2
1988 Morse telegraph 1
Ames Hydroelectric station 5
1989 Manufacture of transistors 2
1990 Transcontinental telegraph 5
Adams hydroelectric plant 1
Antanasoff-Berry computer 4
MIT radiation lab 1
1991 Shoshone transmission line 5
1992 Richmond Passenger railway 3
Alexanderson Radio alternator 1
1993 Alouette-Isis satellite 7
1994 Poulsen Arc radio transmitter 8
KDKA radio station 2
1995 Yagi antenna 10
1997 Mill Creek hydroelectric plant 6
1999 Volta’s battery 8
Georgetown steam/hydro plant 5
Operational use of wireless 8
Merril wheel balancing system 5
First wearable cardiac pacemaker 4
2000 County Kerry transatlantic telegraph 8
Opana radar 6
Mount Fuji radar 10
Shinkansen 10
2001 Chivilingo hydroelectric plant 9
Transmission of transatlantic radio 8
Byrd Antarctic shortwave 4
US Naval Computing lab 2
Color television 2
Arecibo radio telescope 9
Electrical technology for space launches 3
2002 Shannon electrification 8
Transatlantic television by satellite 1,8
Work on quartz wristwatch 8
2003 Marconi early wireless experiments 8
Franklin’s London work 8
Panama Canal electrical installations 9
Bletchley Park code breaking 8
2004 Boston electric fire alarm 1
Alternating Current electrification 1
Boston Rapid transit power system 1
Decew Falls hydroelectric plant 7
Fleming valve 8
Experimental Breeder Reactor 6
Commercial quartz wristwatch 10
Lempel-Ziv algorithm 8
2005 Popov’s radio work 8
Vucje Hydroelectric plant 8
RAMAC 6
Taum Sauk Pumped Storage plant 5
First 735 kV Act transmission system 7
CERN instrumentation 8
Nelson River HVDC 7
Pioneering work on electronic calculators 10
2006 Callan’s Pioneering contributions 8
First intelligible speech over wire 1
Edison site at Menlo Park 1
WEIZAC computer 8
TAT-1 telephone cable 7,8
Liquid Crystal Display 2
Development of VHS 10
2007 Early remote-control 8
Railroad ticketing examining system 10
2008 First distant speech transmission 7
Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange 1
Piniwa Hydroelectric 7
Fessenden broadcast 1
Largest DC generating plant in USA 1
Japanese word processor 10
2009 Yosami transmitting station 10
Pocket-sized electronic calculator 6
Planar process integrated circuit 6
Shilling early telegraph work 8
First external pacemaker 7
2010 Kurobe Hydropower Plant 10
Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells 10
Star of Laufenburg Interconnection 8
TIROS Satellite 1
Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly) 8
Invention of Public-key Cryptography 8
First TV Broadcast in Western Canada 7
Demonstration of Working Laser 6
Radio Astronomy Using VLBI 7
First 16-bit Monolithic DAC 5
TRIUMF Cyclotron 7
Regions Regions
1-7 8-10
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