Possible Milestones for IEEE Long Island Section
From ETHW
HERE ARE SOME POTENTIAL MILESTONES FOR LONG ISLAND: FEEL FREE TO ADD AND/OR ANNOTATE
1881 Lewis Latimer’s improved electric lamp/pioneering work as an African American inventor (now in Queen’s County)
1901 Tesla Wardenclyffe Lab (Shoreham)
1915 Radiotelephone broadcast to Grand Fork, ND, by Goldsmith (Sayville)
1919 1st RCA Laboratory (Riverhead)
1921 Harding transatlantic broadcast relayed (Rocky Point)
1929 First “blind” flight by Doolittle at Mitchell Field (Uniondale; instrumentation included “Kollsman Window” altimeter from Elmhurst as well as key instruments from non-Long-Island firms)
1941 Millar’s two-phase PHK modulator carrier system at the Western Union Experimental Lab (Watermill)
1940s Sperry WWII Work (Lake Success)
1946 Wheeler IFF work (Smithtown)
1947 – 1951 Reformulation of field theory in microwave network terms at Brooklyn Polytechnic’s Microwave Research Institute (Farmingdale)
1955 Arma Corporation’s fire-control system for the B-52 (Garden City)
1958 Higginbotham’s pioneering video game (Brookhaven)
1969 Grumman’s Lunar Excursion Module (Garden City)
1969 1st networked ATM installed (Garden City)
1973 Lauterbur’s development of MRI (Stony Brook)
