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| == List of Milestones by Region ==
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| The following is a list of dedicated IEEE Milestones organized by geographic region. To see lists of IEEE Milestones sorted by other properties, see:
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| *[[Map|Locations of IEEE Milestones on a map]]
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| *[[Milestones:List_of_IEEE_Milestones|List of All IEEE Milstones]]
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| *[[Milestones:List_of_Milestones_by_Dedication_Year|List of Milestones by Dedication Year]]
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| === Region I ===
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| {| border="1" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="600"
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| |'''Date Dedicated'''
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| |'''Name of Milestone'''
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| |'''Section'''
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| |1982
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| |Electrification of NY, NH railroad
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| |Connecticut
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| |-
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| |1987
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| |Two-way Police Radio
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| |North Jersey
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| |-
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| |1987
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| |FM Police Radio
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| |Connecticut
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| |-
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| |1988
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| |Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy
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| |North Jersey
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| |-
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| |1990
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| |Adams Hydroelectric Plant
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| |Buffalo
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| |-
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| |1990
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| |MIT Radiation Lab
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |1992
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| |Alexanderson Radio Alternator
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| |Schenectady
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| |-
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| |2002
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| |Transatlantic TV by Satellite
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| |Maine
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| |-
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| |2004
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| |Boston Electrical Fire Alarm
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |2004
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| |Alternating Current Electrification
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| |Berkshire
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| |-
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| |2004
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| |Boston Rapid Transit Power System
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |2006
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| |First Intelligible Speech over Wire
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |2006
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| |Edison Site at Menlo Park
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| |Princeton/Central Jersey
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| |2008
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| |Edison Lab and Factory,West Orange
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| |Princeton/North Jersey
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| |-
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| |2008
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| |Fessenden Broadcast
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |2008
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| |Largest DC Generating Plant in US
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| |New York
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| |2009
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| |Invention of Transistor
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| |North Jersey
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| |-
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| |2009
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| |Franklin Experiments in Philadelphia
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| |Philadelphia
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| |2009
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| |Watson Research Center
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| |New York
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| |-
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| |2010
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| |TIROS Satellite
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| |Princeton/Central Jersey
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| |2011
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| |Edison Pearl Street Station
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| |New York
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| |2011
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| |Lunar Module
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| |Long Island
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| |2011
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| |Real-Time Packet Switching
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| |Boston
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| |2011
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| |Apollo Guidance Computer
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| |Boston
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| |2012
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| |Low Loss Optical Fiber
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| |Corning Section/Photonics Society
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| |2012
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| |LORAN
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| |Boston
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| |2012
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| |Whirlwind Computer
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| |Boston
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| |-
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| |2012
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| |SAGE system
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| |Boston
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| === Region 2 ===
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| |'''Date Dedicated'''
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| |'''Name of Milestone'''
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| |'''Section'''
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| |1985
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| |Westinghouse Atom Smasher
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| |Pittsburgh
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| |1987
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| |ENIAC
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| |Philadelphia
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| |1989
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| |Manufacture of Transistors
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| |Lehigh Valley
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| |1994
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| |KDKA Commercial Radio
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| |Pittsburgh
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| |2001
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| |US Naval Computing Lab
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| |Dayton
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| |2001
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| |Monochrome-Compatible Color TV
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| |Princeton/Central New Jersey
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| |2006
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| |Liquid Crystal Display
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| |Princeton/Central New Jersey
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| |2012
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| |B&O Railroad electrification
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| |Baltimore
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| === Region 3 ===
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| |'''Date Dedicated'''
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| |'''Name of Milestone'''
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| |1986
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| |First Central Power Station in South Carolina
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| |Coastal South Carolina
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| |1992
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| |Richmond Union Passenger Railway
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| |Richmond
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| |2001
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| |Electrical Technology for Space Launches
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| |Canaveral
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| === Region 4 ===
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| |'''Date Dedicated'''
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| |1977
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| |Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant Northeastern
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| |Wisconsin
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| |1987
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| |One-way Police Radio
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| |Southeastern Michigan
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| |1990
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| |Atanasoff-Berry Computer
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| |Central Iowa
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| |1999
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| |Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker
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| |Twin Cities
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| |2001
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| |Byrd Antartic Shortwave
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| |Cedar Rapids
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| |2012
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| |First Reliable HV Fuse
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| |Chicago
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| === Region 5 ===
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| |1988
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| |Ames Hydroelectric Station
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| |Pikes Peak
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| |1990
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| |Transcontinental Telegraph
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| |Denver
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| |1991
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| |Shoshone Transmission Line
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| |Denver
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| |1999
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| |Georgetown Steam/Hydro Plant
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| |Denver
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| |1999
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| |Merril Wheel Balancing System
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| |Denver
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| |2005
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| |TaumSauk Pumped Storage
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| |St Louis
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| |2009
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| |Speak-and-Spell Speech IC
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| |Dallas
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| |2010
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| |First 16-bit Monolithic DAC
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| |Dallas
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| |2011
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| |Mercury Spacecraft Controls
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| |St Louis
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| === Region 6 ===
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| 1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator San Francisco Bay Area Council<br>
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| 1997 Mill Creek Hydroelectric Station Foothill<br>2000 Opana Radar Hawaii
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| 2004 Experimental Breeder Reactor Eastern Idaho
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| 2005 RAMAC Santa Clara Valley
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| 2009 Pocket-sized Electronic Calculator Santa Clara Valley
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| Planar Process Integrated Circuit Santa Clara Valley
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| Birthplace of Internet Coastal Los Angeles
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| Inception of Arpanet Santa Clara
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| 2010 Demonstration of Working Laser Metro Los Angeles
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| 2011 SPICE Circuit Simulation Program Santa Clara
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| 2012 Floating Gate EEPROM Santa Clara Valley
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| === <br>Region 7 ===
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| 1985 Landing of Transatlantic Telegraph Newfoundland-Labrador <br> Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals Newfoundland-Labrador
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| 1993 Alouette-Isis Satellite Ottawa<br>
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| 2004 Decew Falls Hydroelectric Plant Hamilton
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| 2005 735kV AC Transmission system Quebec
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| Nelson River HVDC Winnipeg
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| 2006 TAT-1 Telephone Cable Newfoundland-Labrador and Canadian Atlantic
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| 2008 First Distant Speech Transmission Hamilton
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| Piniwa Hydroelectric Winnipeg
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| 2009 First External Pacemaker Toronto
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| 2010 First TV Broadcast in Western Canada Vancouver
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| Radio Astronomy Using VLBA Vancouver
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| TRIUMF Cyclotron Vancouver
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| 2011 Eel River HVDC Converter New Brunswick<br>
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| === Region 8 ===
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| 1994 Poulsen Arc Radio Transmitter Denmark
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| 1999 Volta's Battery Italy
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| Operational Use of Wirelss South Africa
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| 2000 County Kerry Wireless Station UKRI
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| 2001 Transmission of Transatlantic Radio UKRI
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| 2002 Shannon Electrification UKRI
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| Transatlantic TV by Satellite France, UKRI
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| Pioneering Work on Quartz Watch Switzerland
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| 2003 Marconi Early Wireless Experiments Switzerland
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| Franklin's Work in London UKRI
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| Bletchley Park Codebreaking UKRI
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| 2004 Fleming Valve UKRI
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| Lempel-Ziv Algorithm Israel
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| 2005 Popov's Radio Work Russia Northwest
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| Vucje Hydroelectric Plant Yugoslavia
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| CERN Instrumentation France
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| 2006 Callan's Pioneering Contributions UKRI
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| WEIZAC Computer Israel
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| TAT-1 Telephone Cable UKRI
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| 2007 Early Remote Control Spain
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| 2009 Maxwell's Equations UKRI<br>
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| Shilling Early Telegraph Russia Northwest
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| Compact Disc Player Benelux
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| 2010 Star of Laufenburg Interconnection Switzerland
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| Branly's Discovery of Radioconduction France
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| Public-Key Cryptography UKRI
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| 2011 Discovery of Superconductivity Benelux<br>
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| Marconi's First Wireless Experiments Italy
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| === Region 9 ===
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| 2001 Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant Chile<br>
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| Arecibo Radio Telescope Puerto Rico and Carribean
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| 2003 Panama Canal Electrical Installations Panama
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| === Region 10 ===
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| 1995 Yagi Antenna Tokyo
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| 2000 Mount Fuji Radar Nagoya
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| Shinkansen Bullet Train Tokyo
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| 2004 Commercial Quartz Wristwatch Tokyo
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| 2005 Pioneering Work on Calculators Kansai
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| 2006 Development of VHS Tokyo
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| 2007 Railroad Ticketing System Kansai
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| 2008 Japanese Word Processor Tokyo
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| 2009 Development of Electronic TV 1924-41 Nagoya
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| Development of Ferrite Materials Tokyo
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| Yosami Transmitting Station Nagoya
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| Transpacific Reception of Satellite TV Tokyo
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| 2010 Field Effect Electron Microscope Tokyo
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| G3 Facsimile Tokyo
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| Kurobe Hydropower Plant Kansai
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| Commercialization of Photovoltaics Kansai
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| 2011 First Satellite Broadcast to the Public Tokyo
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