Milestones:List of Milestones by Region
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DATE
DEDICATED SHORT NAME OF MILESTONE SECTION
Region I
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
MIT Radiation Lab Boston
1992 Alexanderson Radio Alternator Schenectady
2002 Transatlantic TV by Satellite Maine
2004 Boston Electrical Fire Alarm Boston
Alternating Current Electrification Berkshire
Boston Rapid Transit Power System Boston
2009 Invention of Transistor North Jersey
Franklin Experiments in Philadelphia Philadelphia
2012 Low Loss Optical Fiber Corning Section/Photonics Society
LORAN Boston
Whirlwind Computer Boston
SAGE system Boston
Region 2
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
Monochrome-Compatible Color TV Princeton/Central New Jersey
2012 B&O Railroad electrification Baltimore
Region 3
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
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
Merril Wheel Balancing System Denver
2011 Mercury Spacecraft Controls
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
2012 Floating Gate EEPROM Santa Clara Valley
Region 7
1985 Landing of Transatlantic Telegraph Newfoundland-Labrador
Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals Newfoundland-Labrador
1993 Alouette-Isis Satellite Ottawa
2004 Decew Falls Hydroelectric Plant Hamilton
2011 Eel River HVDC Converter
Region 8
1994 Poulsen Arc Radio Transmitter Denmark
1999 Volta's Battery Italy
Operational Use of Wirelss South Africa
2000 County Kerry Wireless Station UKRI
2001 Transmission of Transatlantic Radio UKRI
2002 Shannon Electrification UKRI
Transatlantic TV by Satellite France, UKRI
Pioneering Work on Quartz Watch Switzerland
2003 Marconi Early Wireless Experiments Switzerland
Franklin's Work in London UKRI
Bletchley Park Codebreaking UKRI
2004 Fleming Valve UKRI
2009 Maxwell's Equations UKRI
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
2009 Development of Electronic TV 1924-41 Nagoya
Development of Ferrite Materials Tokyo
2010 Field Effect Electron Microscope Tokyo
2010 G3 Facsimile Tokyo
DEDICATIONS HELD DURING 2011
2010-01 SPICE Circuit Simulation Program 20 February 2011 (R6)
2010-05 Discovery of Superconductivity 8 April 2011 (R8)
2008-18 Marconi’s First Wireless Experiments, 29 April 2011 (R8)
2010-06 Pearl Street Station, 10 May 2011 (R1)
2010-08 Lunar Module 20 July 2011 (R1)
2009-13 First Satellite Broadcast to the Public, 18 November 2011 (R10 – Tokyo Section)
2010-09 Real-Time Packet Switching 8 December 2011 (R1 – Sig Proc Soc/Boston Section)
2010-02 Apollo Guidance Computer 13 December 2011 (R1 Boston Section)
MILESTONE DEDICATIONS BY YEAR AND REGION
YEAR DEDICATED SHORT NAME REGION
1984 Stanford Linear Accelerator 6
1985 Landing of transatlantic telegraph 7
Reception of transatlantic radio signals 7
Westinghouse atom smasher 2
1986 First Central station in South Carolina 3
1987 One-way police radio 4
Two-way police radio 1
FM police radio 1
ENIAC 2
1988 Morse telegraph 1
Ames Hydroelectric station 5
1989 Manufacture of transistors 2
1990 Transcontinental telegraph 5
Adams hydroelectric plant 1
Antanasoff-Berry computer 4
MIT radiation lab 1
1991 Shoshone transmission line 5
1992 Richmond Passenger railway 3
Alexanderson Radio alternator 1
1993 Alouette-Isis satellite 7
1994 Poulsen Arc radio transmitter 8
KDKA radio station 2
1995 Yagi antenna 10
1997 Mill Creek hydroelectric plant 6
1999 Volta’s battery 8
Georgetown steam/hydro plant 5
Operational use of wireless 8
Merril wheel balancing system 5
First wearable cardiac pacemaker 4
2000 County Kerry transatlantic telegraph 8
Opana radar 6
Mount Fuji radar 10
Shinkansen 10
2001 Chivilingo hydroelectric plant 9
Transmission of transatlantic radio 8
Byrd Antarctic shortwave 4
US Naval Computing lab 2
Color television 2
Arecibo radio telescope 9
Electrical technology for space launches 3
2002 Shannon electrification 8
Transatlantic television by satellite 1,8
Work on quartz wristwatch 8
2003 Marconi early wireless experiments 8
Franklin’s London work 8
Panama Canal electrical installations 9
Bletchley Park code breaking 8
2004 Boston electric fire alarm 1
Alternating Current electrification 1
Boston Rapid transit power system 1
Decew Falls hydroelectric plant 7
Fleming valve 8
Experimental Breeder Reactor 6
Commercial quartz wristwatch 10
Lempel-Ziv algorithm 8
2005 Popov’s radio work 8
Vucje Hydroelectric plant 8
RAMAC 6
Taum Sauk Pumped Storage plant 5
First 735 kV Act transmission system 7
CERN instrumentation 8
Nelson River HVDC 7
Pioneering work on electronic calculators 10
2006 Callan’s Pioneering contributions 8
First intelligible speech over wire 1
Edison site at Menlo Park 1
WEIZAC computer 8
TAT-1 telephone cable 7,8
Liquid Crystal Display 2
Development of VHS 10
2007 Early remote-control 8
Railroad ticketing examining system 10
2008 First distant speech transmission 7
Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange 1
Piniwa Hydroelectric 7
Fessenden broadcast 1
Largest DC generating plant in USA 1
Japanese word processor 10
2009 Yosami transmitting station 10
Pocket-sized electronic calculator 6
Planar process integrated circuit 6
Shilling early telegraph work 8
First external pacemaker 7
2010 Kurobe Hydropower Plant 10
Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells 10
Star of Laufenburg Interconnection 8
TIROS Satellite 1
Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly) 8
Invention of Public-key Cryptography 8
First TV Broadcast in Western Canada 7
Demonstration of Working Laser 6
Radio Astronomy Using VLBI 7
First 16-bit Monolithic DAC 5
TRIUMF Cyclotron 7
Regions Regions
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