Milestones:Milestones Status Report

REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL PROCESS

IEEE Region and sponsoring organizational unit shown in parentheses. Proposals in progress can be viewed on the IEEE Global History Network at: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=104 The nominations in progress can be viewed at: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=&namespace=106

Red indicates that a milestone is behind schedule at some stage of the process

Total dedicated milestones: 117 Special Citations: 1 Total Approved milestones: 126 Special Citations: 1

A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR:

B. STATUS (Independent of whether or not Advocate assigned)

B.1. Proposals Received Awaiting Approval 2011-06 First Industrial Scale Nuclear Reactor [Johnston] (R6 Richland Section) 2012-01 First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier [Michelson] Photonics Society

B.2. Proposals Approved; Awaiting Nomination Packages 2011-01 High-Temperature Superconductivity [Burger] (R8 – Switzerland Section) 2011-05 Rincon del Bonete [Feisel] (R9 – Uruguay Section) 2011-07 First Laptop Computer [Perez Yuste] (R10 – Tokyo Section)

B.3. Nominations Awaiting Advocate Approval

B.4. Nominations Approved by Advocates and Awaiting Finalized Citations Approval from Nominators

B.5. Nominations Ready for History Committee Action 2011-03 Bell Laboratories [Mac Rae] (R1 – New Jersey Section) 2011-08 Data Storage Flash Memory [Johnston] (R6 – Santa Clara Valley Section)

B.6. Nominations Ready for Board of Directors Action 2011-04 SAGE system [Misa] (R1 – Boston Section) 2011-09 Low Loss Optical Fiber [King] (Photonics Society)

B.7. Dedications Scheduled or Being Planned, all Approvals Having Been Received 2009-09 First Reliable HV Fuse (R4 – Chicago Section) 2009-04 Raman Effect (R10 – Central India Section) 2009-05 Bose experiments in radio (R10 – Central India) 2009-06 Bar Code, April 2012 [exact day to be determined] (R2 Philadelphia Section) 2010-03 G3 Facsimile 5 April 2012 (R10 – Tokyo Section) 2010-10 LORAN (R1 – Boston Section) 2010-11 Whirlwind Computer (R1 – Boston Section) 2011-02 B&O Railroad electrification 21 June 2012 (R2 – Baltimore Section)

B.8. Dedications Held in 2012 2010-04 Field Effect Electron Microscope 31 January 2012 (R10 -- Tokyo)

C. MILESTONES UNDER DEVELOPMENT

C.1. Proposals in Process on GHN, But Which Have Not Been Completed/Submitted • Harrison’s Clock (R8- UKRI) • Invention of Holography (R8 -- UKRI) Snitzer Fiber Optic Laser

C.2. Proposals Under Development (that we are aware of) • Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, 1977 • Cellular radio • First All-Electronic Television Broadcasts (BBC) • Keage Hydroelectric Power Plant, 1891 • London to Adelaide telegraph line • Gagarin Space Flight • Sputnik • Weston meters • Semiconductor Laser (Schenectady) • Photovoltaic effect (R8 – France) • Kao Fiber Optic Theory (R8 – UKRI)

D. Other Milestones Activity First AIEE meeting, Philadelphia (History Center staff has submitted application for Pennsylvania State Historical Marker)