Property:Milestone Site Access Details
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| Invention of Holography by Dennis Gabor + | There is a staffed desk at the Exhibition Road entrance of Imperial College, where visitors could ask for admittance or guidance; a walk across an open courtyard to the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Building is required. |
| Invention of Public-key Cryptography + | The site is a secure communications station, but the main entrance area leading to the main building from the outside is public |
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| John Logie Baird Inventions in Television + | Secure building, TV surveillance cameras, Museum Curator, Security guards, Visitor’s procedures. Currently the London Development Agency has plans to redevelop Crystal Palace Park and the Museum would be re-sited in a brand new construction. See http://www.crystalpalacepark.org/planning_applications.html The Crystal Palace Foundation – Melvyn Harrison – is very supportive but do not have finances crystalpalacefoundation@hotmail.com. </p> </p> The Crystal Palace Museum staff is also very supportive of an IEEE MILESTONE Plaque for JLB and would welcome this addition in order to add to the Museum and the display relating to JLB – the Museum Curator and Museum trustees have been sent requests for support in writing. |
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| Krka – Šibenik Electric Power System + | Both sites are secure and accessible to public |
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| LORAN + | The proposed plaque would be be wall-mounted outdoors, probably attached to MIT Building N42, alongside other plaques at 211 Massachusetts Avenue. The plaque would be readily visible to pedestrians walking on this public sidewalk. |
| Line spectrum pair (LSP), an essential technology for high-compression speech coding, 1975 + | NTT’s receptionists are always near the plaque, and the plaque will be displayed in a transparent hard case. |
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| Mainline Electrification of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 1895 + | The approximately 40-acre site is appropriately fenced and is a secure site. It is accessible to all members of the public who visit the museum. The proposed specific location of the plaque is at the Education Station building on the site. this location is the centralized repository for other plaques acquired through the years. The GPS coordinates of the proposed site of the plaque are: (39 deg.17'07.81"N), (76 deg.38'00.42"W). |
| Marconi First Wireless Experiments, 1894-1895 + | The villa has custodians and the Marconi Museum has a staff for guided visits (arranged by reservation) |
| Mark 1 Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) by Howard Aiken and IBM + | The Harvard school lobby is generally opened to the public. |
| Mercury Spacecraft MA-6 + | The Prologue room is open to the public during the summer months and is visited by more than 5,000 non-Boeing people every year. In addition, the Prologue Room is used by The Boeing Company to explain the vast history of the company to domestic and foreign dignitaries. In addition, middle school students are given tours of the Prologue Room. They learn the mechanics of flight and they are encouraged to consider careers in math, science, and engineering. There is a visitor's parking lot next to Bldg 100 where the public may park and walk to the site of the milestone plaque. The Prologue is a secure area and Boeing provides daily security patrols of the area. The Prologue Room (site of Mercury Capsule MA-6 ) is inside the secure area of Bldg 100 |
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| Pearl Street Station + | Building is a secure site. |
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| RAMAN EFFECT + | It is a Government of India Research Organization, with proper protected campus.The plaque may be erected at the Main Gate, or at the Central lobby of the Building. Visitors are allowed inside for specific purposes with proper identity. |
| Rincon del Bonete Hydroelectric Plant and Transmission System + | As an important generating facility, the site is well secured. The plaque will be affixed to an outside wall, where the frequent public/students touristic/educational tours make a stop. |
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| SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) + | The main lobby provides entrance to public spaces such as the cafeteria and auditorium where IEEE meetings and other events take place. |
| Sharp 14-inch thin-film-transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) for TV, which has ushered in TFT LCD industry + | Public visitors have to go through security, have to wear ID cards in the museum. Appointment has to be made to visit the site. The appointment contact: +81-743-65-0011 http://www.sharp.co.jp/corporate/showroom/tenri/index.html |
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| TIROS 1 + | For public access the plaques are displayed on the exterior of the Sarnoff Corp (Formerly RCA Labs) building headquarters main entrance under a three story roof, and on marble surfaces. The work cited in this nomination was performed in several RCA facilities, RCA Labs, RCA Camden and RCA Astro. The building for the mounting of the RCA Plaque is the former RCA Labs and it currently or actually exists. (See photo attached.) |
| The 20 inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes + | The factory is surrounded by a fence, but the front gate is kept open during the daytime. Visitors can go to the plaque site without going through the security during the daytime. |
| The Birthplace of Silicon Valley + | The plaza is very close to the street and will be maintained by the site owners and the City of Mtn. View |
| The First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier + | The site is open to the public. |
| The Floating Gate EEPROM, 1976-1978 + | The Visitors' Lobby has direct public access, and the building is locked during non-business hours. |
| The first satellite broadcasting to the public + | The building of the laboratories is guarded by security personnel at the entrance of the laboratories lot and at the entrance of the building. The entrance lobby of the building is open to the public so that visitors can see the display about broadcast technologies. |
| The world’s first low-loss optical fiber for telecommunications + | The area is secured by a gate. Corning Security will raise the gate for visitors wishing to park and view the plaque. |
| Toshiba T1100, a pioneering contribution to the development of laptop PC, 1985 + | As Ome Complex is one of Toshiba’s facilities, it has enough secure gates. But it has a museum area in the building, and people are allowed to go into the building can access the museum area. Already IEEE Milestone Award “The First Word Processor for The Japanese Language, 1971-1978” is displayed at Ome Complex. |
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| Unidirectional Microphone + | The building is secure at all times. Visitors can simply enter the lobby entrance to view both the plaque and Shure's display of historical microphones and documents. Additional access to the building would need to be arranged with Shure. |
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| Whirlwind Computer + | The original building where Whirlwind was housed is located at 211 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge. The plaque would be readily visible to pedestrians walking on the public sidewalk along this major street in Cambridge. |
