Milestones:List of Milestones by Dedication Year

Milestones By Year Dedicated And Region

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Year Dedicated	Short Name	Region	Ded #
1977	Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant	4	1
1977	Mill Creek Hydroelectric Plant	6	2
1982	Electrification of New York and New Haven Raillroad	1	3
1984	Stanford Linear Accelerator	6	4
1985	Landing of transatlantic telegraph	7	5
1985	Reception of transatlantic radio signals	7	6
1985	Westinghouse atom smasher	2	7
1986	First Central station in South Carolina	3	8
1987	One-way police radio	4	9
1987	Two-way police radio	1	10
1987	FM police radio	1	11
1987	ENIAC	2	12
1988	Morse telegraph	1	13
1988	Ames Hydroelectric station	5	14
1989	Manufacture of transistors	2	15
1990	Transcontinental telegraph	5	16
1990	Adams hydroelectric plant	1	17
1990	Atanasoff-Berry computer	4	18
1990	MIT radiation lab	1	19
1991	Shoshone transmission line	5	20
1992	Richmond Passenger railway	3	21
1992	Alexanderson Radio alternator	1	22
1993	Alouette-Isis satellite	7	23
1994	Poulsen Arc radio transmitter	8	24
1994	KDKA radio station	2	25
1995	Yagi antenna	10	26
1999	Volta’s battery	8	27
1999	Georgetown steam/hydro plant	5	28
1999	Operational use of wireless	8	29
1999	Merril wheel balancing system	5	30
1999	First wearable cardiac pacemaker	4	31
2000	County Kerry transatlantic telegraph	8	32
2000	Opana radar	6	33
2000	Mount Fuji radar	10	34
2000	Shinkansen	10	35
2001	Chivilingo hydroelectric plant	9	36
2001	Transmission of transatlantic radio	8	37
2001	Byrd Antarctic shortwave	4	38
2001	US Naval Computing lab	2	39
2001	Color television	2	40
2001	Arecibo radio telescope	9	41
2001	Electrical technology for space launches	3	42
2002	Shannon electrification	8	43
2002	Transatlantic Transmission of TV via Satellite (TELSTAR)	1	44
2002	Transatlantic television by satellite (TELSTAR) Goonhilly	8	44
2002	Transatlantic reception of TV via Satellite (TELSTAR) Plumeur-Boudeau	8	44
2002	Work on quartz wristwatch	8	45
2003	Marconi early wireless experiments (Salvan)	8	46
2003	Franklin’s London work	8	47
2003	Panama Canal electrical installations	9	48
2003	Bletchley Park code breaking	8	49
2004	Boston electric fire alarm	1	50
2004	Alternating Current electrification	1	51
2004	Boston Rapid transit power system	1	52
2004	Decew Falls hydroelectric plant	7	53
2004	Fleming valve	8	54
2004	Experimental Breeder Reactor	6	55
2004	Commercial quartz wristwatch	10	56
2004	Lempel-Ziv algorithm	8	57
2005	Popov’s radio work	8	58
2005	Vucje Hydroelectric plant	8	59
2005	RAMAC	6	60
2005	Taum Sauk Pumped Storage plant	5	61
2005	First 735 kV Act transmission system	7	62
2005	CERN instrumentation	8	63
2005	Nelson River HVDC	7	64
2005	Pioneering work on electronic calculators	10	65
2006	Callan’s Pioneering contributions	8
2006	First intelligible speech over wire	1
2006	Edison site at Menlo Park	1
2006	WEIZAC computer	8
2006	TAT-1 telephone cable (3 separate milestones)	7,8
2006	Liquid Crystal Display	2
2006	Development of VHS	10
2007	Early remote-control	8
2007	Railroad ticketing examining system	10
2008	First distant speech transmission	7
2008	Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange	1
2008	Piniwa Hydroelectric	7
2008	Fessenden broadcast	1
2008	Largest DC generating plant in USA	1
2008	Japanese word processor	10
2009	Yosami transmitting station	10
2009	HP-35 Hand-held electronic calculator	6
2009	Compact Disc Audio Player	8
2009	Speak and Spell	5
2009	Japanese electronic television	10
2009	Maxwell's equations	8
2009	Franklin "Experiments and Observations" Philadelphia	2
2009	Ferrite Materials	10
2009	First Transistor	1
2009	Semiconductor Integrated Circuit	5
2009	IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab	1
2009	Transpacific Reception of TV via Satellite	10
2009	Planar process integrated circuit	6
2009	Shilling early telegraph work	8
2009	First external pacemaker	7
2009	Birthplace of Internet	6
2009	Inception of ARPANET	6
2010	Kurobe Hydropower Plant	10
2010	Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells	10
2010	Star of Laufenburg Interconnection	8
2010	TIROS Satellite	1
2010	Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly)	8
2010	Invention of Public-key Cryptography	8
2010	First TV Broadcast in Western Canada	7
2010	Demonstration of Working Laser	6
2010	Radio Astronomy Using VLBI	7
2010	First 16-bit Monolithic DAC	5
2010	TRIUMF Cyclotron	7
02/24/2011	Eel River HVDC Converter	7
2/4/2011	Mercury Spacecraft controls	5
2/20/2011	SPICE Circuit Simulation Program	6
4/8/2011	Discovery of Superconductivity	8
4/29/2011	Marconi’s Early Experiments in Wireless Telgraphy  (Villa Griffone)	8
5/10/2011	Pearl Street Station	1
7/20/2011	Lunar Module	1
11/18/2011	First Satellite Broadcast to the Public	10
12/8/2011	Real-Time Packet Switching	1
12/12/2011	Apollo Guidance Computer	1
1/31/2012	Field Effect Electron Microscope	10
4/5/2012	G3 Facsimile	10
5/1/2012	Low Loss Optical Fiber	1
6/21/2012	B&O Railroad electrification	2
6/27/2012	LORAN	1
6/27/2012	Whirlwind Computer	1
6/27/2012	SAGE system	1
8/3/2012	First Reliable HV Fuse	4
8/21/2012	Floating Gate EEPROM	6
9/15/2012	Bose experiments in radio	10
9/15/2012	Raman Effect	10
10/22/2012	Bar Code	2
10/26/2012	First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier	1, Photonics Society
12/14/2012	Rincon del Bonete Hydroelectric	9
12/6/2013	Invention of Holography	8
5/7/2013	Krka-Sibenik Power Plant	8
10/29/2013	Toshiba T1100 Laptop Computer	10
15 Dec 2013	First AIEE Technical Meeting 1884	2