Milestones:List of Milestones by Region

List of Milestones by Region

The following is a list of dedicated IEEE Milestones organized by geographic region. To see lists of IEEE Milestones sorted by other properties, see:

Region 1

Date Dedicated	Name of Milestone	Section
1982	Electrification of NY, NH railroad	Connecticut
1987	Two-way Police Radio	North Jersey
1987	FM Police Radio	Connecticut
1988	Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy	North Jersey
1990	Adams Hydroelectric Plant	Buffalo
1990	MIT Radiation Lab	Boston
1992	Alexanderson Radio Alternator	Schenectady
2002	Transatlantic TV by Satellite	Maine
2004	Boston Electrical Fire Alarm	Boston
2004	Alternating Current Electrification	Berkshire
2004	Boston Rapid Transit Power System	Boston
2006	First Intelligible Speech over Wire	Boston
2006	Edison Site at Menlo Park	Princeton/Central Jersey
2008	Edison Lab and Factory,West Orange	Princeton/North Jersey
2008	Fessenden Broadcast	Boston
2008	Largest DC Generating Plant in US	New York
2009	Invention of Transistor	North Jersey
2009	Franklin Experiments in Philadelphia	Philadelphia
2009	Watson Research Center	New York
2010	TIROS Satellite	Princeton/Central Jersey
2011	Edison Pearl Street Station	New York
2011	Lunar Module	Long Island
2011	Real-Time Packet Switching	Boston
2011	Apollo Guidance Computer	Boston
2012	Low Loss Optical Fiber	Corning Section/Photonics Society
2012	LORAN	Boston
2012	Whirlwind Computer	Boston
2012	SAGE system	Boston

Region 2

Date Dedicated	Name of Milestone	Section
1985	Westinghouse Atom Smasher	Pittsburgh
1987	ENIAC	Philadelphia
1989	Manufacture of Transistors	Lehigh Valley
1994	KDKA Commercial Radio	Pittsburgh
2001	US Naval Computing Lab	Dayton
2001	Monochrome-Compatible Color TV	Princeton/Central New Jersey
2006	Liquid Crystal Display	Princeton/Central New Jersey
2012	B&O Railroad electrification	Baltimore

Region 3

Date Dedicated	Name of Milestone	Section
1986	First Central Power Station in South Carolina	Coastal South Carolina
1992	Richmond Union Passenger Railway	Richmond
2001	Electrical Technology for Space Launches	Canaveral

Region 4

Date Dedicated	Name of Milestone	Section
1977	Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant Northeastern	Wisconsin
1987	One-way Police Radio	Southeastern Michigan
1990	Atanasoff-Berry Computer	Central Iowa
1999	Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker	Twin Cities
2001	Byrd Antartic Shortwave	Cedar Rapids
2012	First Reliable HV Fuse	Chicago

Region 5

1988	Ames Hydroelectric Station	Pikes Peak
1990	Transcontinental Telegraph	Denver
1991	Shoshone Transmission Line	Denver
1999	Georgetown Steam/Hydro Plant	Denver
1999	Merril Wheel Balancing System	Denver
2005	TaumSauk Pumped Storage	St Louis
2009	Speak-and-Spell Speech IC	Dallas
2010	First 16-bit Monolithic DAC	Dallas
2011	Mercury Spacecraft Controls	St Louis

Region 6

1984	Stanford Linear Accelerator	San Francisco Bay Area Council
1997	Mill Creek Hydroelectric Station	Foothill
2000	Opana Radar	Hawaii
2004	Experimental Breeder Reactor	Eastern Idaho
2005	RAMAC	Santa Clara Valley
2009	Pocket-sized Electronic Calculator	Santa Clara Valley
2009	Planar Process Integrated Circuit	Santa Clara Valley
2009	Birthplace of Internet	Coastal Los Angeles
2009	Inception of Arpanet	Santa Clara
2010	Demonstration of Working Laser	Metro Los Angeles
2011	SPICE Circuit Simulation Program	Santa Clara
2012	Floating Gate EEPROM	Santa Clara Valley

Region 7

1985	Landing of Transatlantic Telegraph	Newfoundland-Labrador
1985	Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals	Newfoundland-Labrador
1993	Alouette-Isis Satellite	Ottawa
2004	Decew Falls Hydroelectric Plant	Hamilton
2005	735kV AC Transmission system	Quebec
2005	Nelson River HVDC	Winnipeg
2006	TAT-1 Telephone Cable	Newfoundland-Labrador and Canadian Atlantic
2008	First Distant Speech Transmission	Hamilton
2008	Piniwa Hydroelectric	Winnipeg
2009	First External Pacemaker	Toronto
2010	First TV Broadcast in Western Canada	Vancouver
2010	Radio Astronomy Using VLBA	Vancouver
2010	TRIUMF Cyclotron	Vancouver
2011	Eel River HVDC Converter	New Brunswick

Region 8

1994	Poulsen Arc Radio Transmitter	Denmark
1999	Volta's Battery	Italy
1999	Operational Use of Wireless	South Africa
2000	County Kerry Wireless Station	UKRI
2001	Transmission of Transatlantic Radio	UKRI
2002	Shannon Electrification	UKRI
2002	Transatlantic TV by Satellite	France, UKRI
2002	Pioneering Work on Quartz Watch	Switzerland
2003	Marconi Early Wireless Experiments	Switzerland
2003	Franklin's Work in London	UKRI
2003	Bletchley Park Codebreaking	UKRI
2004	Fleming Valve	UKRI
2004	Lempel-Ziv Algorithm	Israel
2005	Popov's Radio Work	Russia Northwest
2005	Vucje Hydroelectric Plant	Yugoslavia
2005	CERN Instrumentation	France
2006	Callan's Pioneering Contributions	UKRI
2006	WEIZAC	Computer	Israel
2006	TAT-1 Telephone Cable	UKRI
2007	Early Remote Control	Spain
2009	Maxwell's Equations	UKRI
2009	Shilling Early Telegraph	Russia Northwest
2009	Compact Disc Player	Benelux
2010	Star of Laufenburg Interconnection	Switzerland
2010	Branly's Discovery of Radioconduction	France
2010	Public-Key Cryptography	UKRI
2011	Discovery of Superconductivity	Benelux
2011	Marconi's First Wireless Experiments	Italy

Region 9

2001 Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant Chile

Arecibo Radio Telescope Puerto Rico and Carribean

2003 Panama Canal Electrical Installations Panama

Region 10

1995 Yagi Antenna Tokyo

2000 Mount Fuji Radar Nagoya

Shinkansen Bullet Train Tokyo

2004 Commercial Quartz Wristwatch Tokyo

2005 Pioneering Work on Calculators Kansai

2006 Development of VHS Tokyo

2007 Railroad Ticketing System Kansai

2008 Japanese Word Processor Tokyo

2009 Development of Electronic TV 1924-41 Nagoya

Development of Ferrite Materials Tokyo

Yosami Transmitting Station Nagoya

Transpacific Reception of Satellite TV Tokyo

2010 Field Effect Electron Microscope Tokyo

G3 Facsimile Tokyo

Kurobe Hydropower Plant Kansai

Commercialization of Photovoltaics Kansai

2011 First Satellite Broadcast to the Public Tokyo

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