Milestones:List of Milestones by Dedication Year
MILESTONES BY YEAR DEDICATED AND REGION
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MILESTONE DEDICATIONS BY YEAR AND REGION
YEAR DEDICATED SHORT NAME REGION
1977 Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant 4
1982 Electrification of New York and New Haven Raillroad 1
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
2011
Eel River HVDC Converter (R7) 24 February 2011
Mercury Spacecraft controls 24 February 2011 (R5)
SPICE Circuit Simulation Program 20 February 2011 (R6)
Discovery of Superconductivity 8 April 2011 (R8)
Marconi’s First Wireless Experiments, 29 April 2011 (R8)
Pearl Street Station, 10 May 2011 (R1)
Lunar Module 20 July 2011 (R1)
First Satellite Broadcast to the Public, 18 November 2011 (R10 – Tokyo Section)
Real-Time Packet Switching 8 December 2011 (R1 – Sig Proc Soc.)
Apollo Guidance Computer 13 December 2011 (R1 Boston Section)
2010-04 Field Effect Electron Microscope 31 January 2012 (R10 -- Tokyo)
2010-03 G3 Facsimile, 5 April 2012 (R10 – Tokyo Section)
2011-09 Low Loss Optical Fiber, 1 May 2012 (R1 -- Photonics Society)
2011-02 B&O Railroad electrification 21 June 2012 (R2 – Baltimore Section)
2010-10 LORAN, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2010-11 Whirlwind Computer 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2011-04 SAGE system, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2009-09 First Reliable HV Fuse, 3 August 2012 (R4 – Chicago Section)
2011-08 Floating Gate EEPROM, 21 August 2012 (R6, Santa Clara Valley Section)
2012
2010-04 Field Effect Electron Microscope, 31 January 2012 (R10 -- Tokyo)
2010-03 G3 Facsimile, 5 April 2012 (R10 – Tokyo Section)
2011-09 Low Loss Optical Fiber, 1 May 2012 (R1 -- Photonics Society)
2011-02 B&O Railroad electrification 21 June 2012 (R2 – Baltimore Section)
2010-10 LORAN, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2010-11 Whirlwind Computer 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2011-04 SAGE system, 27 June 2012 (R1 – Boston Section)
2009-09 First Reliable HV Fuse, 3 August 2012 (R4 – Chicago Section)
2011-08 Floating Gate EEPROM, 21 August 2012 (R6, Santa Clara Valley Section)
2009-05 Bose experiments in radio, 15 September 2012 (R10 – Central India)
2009-04 Raman Effect, 15 September 2012 (R10 – Central India Section)
2009-06 Bar Code, 22 October 2012 (R2 Philadelphia Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:Birthplace_of_the_Bar_Code,_1948
2012-01 First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 26 October 2012, (R1, Photonics Society )http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:First_Optical_Fiber_Laser_and_Amplifier
2011-05 Rincon del Bonete [LF] (R9 – Uruguay Section) http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Milestone-Nomination:Rincon_del_Bonete_Hydroelectric_Plant_and_Transmission_System
Regions Regions
1-7 8-10
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