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