Milestones:Milestones Status Report

REPORT ON THE STATUS OF MILESTONES IN SUBMISSION/APPROVAL PROCESS

Each milestone is listed by docket number, and IEEE Region and sponsoring organizational unit are 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

Total dedicated milestones: 117 Special Citations: 1

Total Approved milestones: 126 Special Citations: 1

                                       A. ADVOCATES NEEDED FOR THE FOLLOWING MILESTONES:

(none currently needed)

                                        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

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 (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)

2011-04 SAGE system (R1 – Boston Section)

2011-09 Low Loss Optical Fiber [King] (Photonics Society)

                                           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, 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 

Weston meters

Semiconductor Laser (Schenectady)

Photovoltaic effect (R8 – France) 

                                                         D. OTHER MILESTONES ACTIVITY

First AIEE meeting, Philadelphia (History Center staff has submitted application for Pennsylvania State Historical Marker, decision expected end of March)