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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

1988 Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy North Jersey

1990 Adams Hydroelectric Plant Buffalo

MIT Radiation Lab Boston

1992 Alexanderson Radio Alternator Schenectady

2002 Transatlantic TV by Satellite Maine

2004 Boston Electrical Fire Alarm Boston

Alternating Current Electrification Berkshire

Boston Rapid Transit Power System Boston

2006 First Intelligible Speech over Wire Boston

Edison Site at Menlo Park Princeton/Central Jersey

2008 Edison Lab and Factory, West Orange Princeton/North Jersey

Fessenden Broadcast Boston

Largest DC Generating Plant in US New York

2009 Invention of Transistor North Jersey

Franklin Experiments in Philadelphia Philadelphia

Watson Research Center New York

2010 TIROS Satellite Princeton/Central Jersey

2011 Edison Pearl Street Station New York

Lunar Module Long Island

Real-Time Packet Switching Boston

Apollo Guidance Computer Boston

2012 Low Loss Optical Fiber Corning Section/Photonics Society

LORAN Boston

Whirlwind Computer Boston

SAGE system Boston

Region 2

1985 Westinghouse Atom Smasher Pittsburgh

1987 ENIAC Philadelphia

1989 Manufacture of Transistors Lehigh Valley

1994 KDKA Commercial Radio Pittsburgh

2001 US Naval Computing Lab Dayton

Monochrome-Compatible Color TV Princeton/Central New Jersey

2006 Liquid Crystal Display Princeton/Central New Jersey

2012 B&O Railroad electrification Baltimore

Region 3

1986 First Central Power Station in South Carolina Coastal South Carolina

1992 Richmond Union Passenger Railway Richmond

2001 Electrical Technology for Space Launches Canaveral

Region 4

1977              Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant        Northeastern Wisconsin
1987              One-way Police Radio                        Southeastern Michigan
1990              Atanasoff-Berry Computer                   Central Iowa

1999 Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker Twin Cities

2001 Byrd Antartic Shortwave Cedar Rapids

2012 First Reliable HV Fuse Chicago

Region 5

1988 Ames Hydroelectric Station Pikes Peak

1990 Transcontinental Telegraph Denver

1991 Shoshone Transmission Line Denver
1999 Georgetown Steam/Hydro Plant Denver

Merril Wheel Balancing System Denver

2005 Taum Sauk Pumped Storage St Louis

2009 Speak-and-Spell Speech IC Dallas

2010 First 16-bit Monolithic DAC Dallas

2011 Mercury Spacecraft Controls St Louis

Region 6

1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator San Francisco Bay Area Council

1997 Mill Creek Hydroelectric Station Foothill
2000 Opana Radar Hawaii

2004 Experimental Breeder Reactor Eastern Idaho

2005 RAMAC Santa Clara Valley

2009 Pocket-sized Electronic Calculator Santa Clara Valley

Planar Process Integrated Circuit Santa Clara Valley

Birthplace of Internet Coastal Los Angeles

Inception of Arpanet Santa Clara

2010 Demonstration of Working Laser Metro Los Angeles

2011 SPICE Circuit Simulation Program Santa Clara

2012 Floating Gate EEPROM Santa Clara Valley

Region 7

1985 Landing of Transatlantic Telegraph Newfoundland-Labrador
Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals Newfoundland-Labrador

1993 Alouette-Isis Satellite Ottawa

2004 Decew Falls Hydroelectric Plant Hamilton

2005 735kV AC Transmission system Quebec

Nelson River HVDC Winnipeg

2006 TAT-1 Telephone Cable Newfoundland-Labrador and Canadian Atlantic

2008 First Distant Speech Transmission Hamilton

Piniwa Hydroelectric Winnipeg

2009 First External Pacemaker Toronto

2010 First TV Broadcast in Western Canada Vancouver

Radio Astronomy Using VLBA Vancouver

TRIUMF Cyclotron Vancouver

2011 Eel River HVDC Converter New Brunswick

Region 8

1994 Poulsen Arc Radio Transmitter Denmark

1999 Volta's Battery Italy

Operational Use of Wirelss South Africa

2000 County Kerry Wireless Station UKRI

2001 Transmission of Transatlantic Radio UKRI

2002 Shannon Electrification UKRI

Transatlantic TV by Satellite France, UKRI

Pioneering Work on Quartz Watch Switzerland

2003 Marconi Early Wireless Experiments Switzerland

Franklin's Work in London UKRI

Bletchley Park Codebreaking UKRI

2004 Fleming Valve UKRI

Lempel-Ziv Algorithm Israel

2005 Popov's Radio Work Russia Northwest

Vucje Hydroelectric Plant Yugoslavia

CERN Instrumentation France

2006 Callan's Pioneering Contributions UKRI

WEIZAC Computer Israel

TAT-1 Telephone Cable UKRI

2007 Early Remote Control Spain

2009 Maxwell's Equations UKRI

Shilling Early Telegraph Russia Northwest

Compact Disc Player Benelux

2010 Star of Laufenburg Interconnection Switzerland

Branly's Discovery of Radioconduction France

Public-Key Cryptography UKRI

2011 Discovery of Superconductivity Benelux

Marconi's First Wireless Experiments Italy

Region 9

2001 Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant Chile

Arecibo Radio Telescope Puerto Rico and Carribean

2003 Panama Canal Electrical Installations Panama

Region 10

1995 Yagi Antenna Tokyo

2000 Mount Fuji Radar Nagoya

Shinkansen Bullet Train Tokyo

2004 Commercial Quartz Wristwatch Tokyo

2005 Pioneering Work on Calculators Kansai

2006 Development of VHS Tokyo

2007 Railroad Ticketing System Kansai

2008 Japanese Word Processor Tokyo

2009 Development of Electronic TV 1924-41 Nagoya

Development of Ferrite Materials Tokyo

Yosami Transmitting Station Nagoya

Transpacific Reception of Satellite TV Tokyo

2010 Field Effect Electron Microscope Tokyo

G3 Facsimile Tokyo

Kurobe Hydropower Plant Kansai

Commercialization of Photovoltaics Kansai

2011 First Satellite Broadcast to the Public Tokyo

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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TIROS Satellite&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Princeton/Central Jersey
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Edison&nbsp;Pearl&nbsp;Street Station&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New York
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lunar Module&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Long Island
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Real-Time Packet Switching&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boston
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Apollo Guidance Computer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Boston
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Low Loss Optical Fiber&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Corning Section/Photonics Society
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Demonstration of Working Laser&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Metro Los Angeles
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SPICE&nbsp;Circuit Simulation Program&nbsp;&nbsp; Santa Clara
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Floating Gate EEPROM&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Santa Clara Valley
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Discovery of Superconductivity&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benelux<br>
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Marconi's First&nbsp;Wireless Experiments&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Italy
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 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Commercialization of Photovoltaics&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kansai
 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First&nbsp;Satellite Broadcast to the Public&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tokyo
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-MILESTONE DEDICATIONS BY YEAR AND REGION<br>YEAR DEDICATED SHORT NAME REGION<br><br>1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator 6<br>1985 Landing of transatlantic telegraph 7<br>Reception of transatlantic radio signals 7<br>Westinghouse atom smasher 2<br>1986 First Central station in South Carolina 3<br>1987 One-way police radio 4<br>Two-way police radio 1<br>FM police radio 1<br>ENIAC 2<br>1988 Morse telegraph 1<br>Ames Hydroelectric station 5<br>1989 Manufacture of transistors 2<br>1990 Transcontinental telegraph 5<br>Adams hydroelectric plant 1<br>Antanasoff-Berry computer 4<br>MIT radiation lab 1<br>1991 Shoshone transmission line 5<br>1992 Richmond Passenger railway 3<br>Alexanderson Radio alternator 1<br>1993 Alouette-Isis satellite 7<br>1994 Poulsen Arc radio transmitter 8<br>KDKA radio station 2<br>1995 Yagi antenna 10<br>1997 Mill Creek hydroelectric plant 6<br>1999 Volta’s battery 8<br>Georgetown steam/hydro plant 5<br>Operational use of wireless 8<br>Merril wheel balancing system 5<br>First wearable cardiac pacemaker 4<br>2000 County Kerry transatlantic telegraph 8<br>Opana radar 6<br>Mount Fuji radar 10<br>Shinkansen 10<br>2001 Chivilingo hydroelectric plant 9<br>Transmission of transatlantic radio 8<br>Byrd Antarctic shortwave 4<br>US Naval Computing lab 2<br>Color television 2<br>Arecibo radio telescope 9<br>Electrical technology for space launches 3<br>2002 Shannon electrification 8<br>Transatlantic television by satellite 1,8<br>Work on quartz wristwatch 8<br>2003 Marconi early wireless experiments 8<br>Franklin’s London work 8<br>Panama Canal electrical installations 9<br>Bletchley Park code breaking 8<br>2004 Boston electric fire alarm 1<br>Alternating Current electrification 1<br>Boston Rapid transit power system 1<br>Decew Falls hydroelectric plant 7<br>Fleming valve 8<br>Experimental Breeder Reactor 6<br>Commercial quartz wristwatch 10<br>Lempel-Ziv algorithm 8<br>2005 Popov’s radio work 8<br>Vucje Hydroelectric plant 8<br>RAMAC 6<br>Taum Sauk Pumped Storage plant 5<br>First 735 kV Act transmission system 7<br>CERN instrumentation 8<br>Nelson River HVDC 7<br>Pioneering work on electronic calculators 10<br>2006 Callan’s Pioneering contributions 8<br>First intelligible speech over wire 1<br>Edison site at Menlo Park 1<br>WEIZAC computer 8<br>TAT-1 telephone cable 7,8<br>Liquid Crystal Display 2<br>Development of VHS 10<br>2007 Early remote-control 8<br>Railroad ticketing examining system 10<br>2008 First distant speech transmission 7<br>Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange 1<br>Piniwa Hydroelectric 7<br>Fessenden broadcast 1<br>Largest DC generating plant in USA 1<br>Japanese word processor 10<br>2009 Yosami transmitting station 10<br>Pocket-sized electronic calculator 6<br>Planar process integrated circuit 6<br>Shilling early telegraph work 8<br>First external pacemaker 7<br>2010 Kurobe Hydropower Plant 10<br>Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells 10<br>Star of Laufenburg Interconnection 8 <br>TIROS Satellite 1<br>Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly) 8<br>Invention of Public-key Cryptography 8<br>First TV Broadcast in Western Canada 7<br>Demonstration of Working Laser 6<br>Radio Astronomy Using VLBI 7<br>First 16-bit Monolithic DAC 5<br>TRIUMF Cyclotron 7
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