Milestones:List of Milestones by Dedication Year

Milestones By Year Dedicated And Region

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Year Dedicated	Short Name	Region	Dedication #
1977	Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant	4	1
1977	Mill Creek Hydroelectric Plant	6	2
1982	Electrification of New York and New Haven Railroad	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 reception of TV via Satellite (TELSTAR) Plumeur-Boudeau	8	44
2002	Transatlantic television by satellite (TELSTAR) Goonhilly	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 Great Barrington, MA	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 AC 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	66
2006	First intelligible speech over wire	1	67
2006	Edison site at Menlo Park	1	68
2006	WEIZAC computer	8	69
2006	TAT-1 telephone cable (3 separate plaques)	7,8	70
2006	Liquid Crystal Display	2	71
2006	Development of VHS	10	72
2007	Early remote-control	8	73
2007	Railroad ticketing examining system	10	74
2008	First distant speech transmission	7	75
2008	Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange	1	76
2008	Pinawa Hydroelectric	7	77
2008	Fessenden broadcast	1	78
2008	Largest DC generating plant in USA	1	79
2008	Japanese word processor	10	80
2009	Yosami transmitting station	10	81
2009	HP-35 Hand-held electronic calculator	6	82
2009	Compact Disc Audio Player	8	83
2009	Speak and Spell	5	84
2009	Japanese electronic television	10	85
2009	Maxwell's equations	8	86
2009	Franklin "Experiments and Observations" Philadelphia	2	87
2009	Ferrite Materials	10	88
2009	First Transistor	1	89
2009	Semiconductor Integrated Circuit	5	90
2009	IBM T. J. Watson Research Lab	1	91
2009	Transpacific Reception of TV via Satellite	10	92
2009	Planar process integrated circuit	6	93
2009	Shilling early telegraph work	8	94
2009	First external pacemaker	7	95
2009	Birthplace of Internet	6	96
2009	Inception of ARPANET	6	97
2010	Kurobe Hydropower Plant	10	98
2010	Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells	10	99
2010	Star of Laufenburg Interconnection	8	100
2010	TIROS Satellite	1	101
2010	Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly)	8	102
2010	Invention of Public-key Cryptography	8	103
2010	First TV Broadcast in Western Canada	7	104
2010	Demonstration of Working Laser	6	105
2010	Radio Astronomy Using VLBI	7	106
2010	First 16-bit Monolithic DAC	5	107
2010	TRIUMF Cyclotron	7	108
02/24/2011	Eel River HVDC Converter	7	109
2/4/2011	Mercury Spacecraft controls	5	110
2/20/2011	SPICE Circuit Simulation Program	6	111
4/8/2011	Discovery of Superconductivity	8	112
4/29/2011	Marconi’s Early Experiments in Wireless Telgraphy  (Villa Griffone)	8	113
5/10/2011	Pearl Street Station	1	114
7/20/2011	Lunar Module	1	115
11/18/2011	First Satellite Broadcast to the Public	10	116
12/8/2011	Real-Time Packet Switching	1	117
12/12/2011	Apollo Guidance Computer	1	118
1/31/2012	Field Effect Electron Microscope	10	119
4/5/2012	G3 Facsimile	10	120
5/1/2012	Low Loss Optical Fiber	1	121
6/21/2012	B&O Railroad electrification	2	122
6/27/2012	LORAN	1	123
6/27/2012	Whirlwind Computer	1	124
6/27/2012	SAGE system	1	125
8/3/2012	First Reliable HV Fuse	4	126
8/21/2012	Floating Gate EEPROM	6	127
9/15/2012	Bose experiments in radio	10	128
9/15/2012	Raman Effect	10	129
10/22/2012	Bar Code	2	130
10/26/2012	First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier	1, Photonics Society	131
12/14/2012	Rincon del Bonete Hydroelectric	9	132
12/6/2013	Invention of Holography	8	133
5/7/2013	Krka-Sibenik Power Plant	8	134
10/29/2013	Toshiba T1100 Laptop Computer	10	135
15 Dec 2013	First AIEE Technical Meeting 1884	2	136
31 January 2014	Unidirectional Microphone	4	137
12 April 2014	Battery Industries in Japan, 1893	10	138
25 April 2014	Birth of CP/M Operating System, 1974	6	139
22 May 2014	LSP Speech Coding	10	140
27 May 2014	Digital Image from Synthetic Aperture Radar, 1978	7	138
10 June 2014	Thin Film Transistor	10