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This template outputs a map of geocoded IEEE milestones. Copy the code above and pass some values. All parameters are optional, but at least one is needed.

{{Region map
|Region number=       # integer code of a region, e.g.: 1
|IEEE section=        # name of a section location, e.g.: New York: 
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Example 1

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Dedication: June 1990 - IEEE Buffalo Section. Only the 1895 transformer house,(long, grey-roofed building in center of satellite photo) designed by the famous architects McKim, Mead and White, remains at the original location. The entrance to the first Adams plant has been re-erected in the park on Goats Island (between the falls). When the Adams Plant went into operation on August 26, 1895, it represented a key victory for alternating-current systems over direct-current. The clear advantage of high voltage AC for long distance power transmission and the unprecedented size of the plant (it reached its full capacity of ten 5,000-HP generators in May 1900) influenced the future of the electrical industry worldwide.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant, 1895","link":"","lat":43.081784,"lon":-79.042946,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Alexanderson_Radio_Alternator,_1904#_143bbe0684b166e995d973d6bca6f622\" title=\"Milestones:Alexanderson Radio Alternator, 1904\"\u003EMilestones:Alexanderson Radio Alternator, 1904\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeneral Electric Co., 1 River Rd, Building 37, Schenectady, New York, U.S.A. Dedication: February 1992 - IEEE Schenectady Section. The Alexanderson radio alternator was a high-power, radio-frequency source which provided reliable transoceanic radiotelegraph communication during and after World War I. Ernst F.W. Alexanderson (1878-1975), a General Electric engineer, designed radio alternators with a frequency range to 100 kHz and a power capability from 2 kW to 200 kW. These machines, developed during the period 1904 to 1918, were used in research on high-frequency properties of materials as well as for international communications.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Alexanderson Radio Alternator, 1904","link":"","lat":42.809949,"lon":-73.951549,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Alternating_Current_Electrification,_1886#_318a4b7e0c6fde589913c455e03eb5b0\" title=\"Milestones:Alternating Current Electrification, 1886\"\u003EMilestones:Alternating Current Electrification, 1886\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1886 Corner of Cottage and Main Streets, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Dedication: 2 October 2004, IEEE Berkshire Section. On 20 March 1886 William Stanley provided alternating current electrification to offices and stores on Main Street in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He thus demonstrated the first practical system for providing electrical illumination using alternating current with transformers to adjust voltage levels of the distribution system.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Alternating Current Electrification, 1886","link":"","lat":42.198443,"lon":-73.361209,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Alternating-Current_Electrification_of_the_New_York,_New_Haven_%26_Hartford_Railroad,_1907#_7daa0c86afd42c3b3cb759bea022961a\" title=\"Milestones:Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven \u0026amp; Hartford Railroad, 1907\"\u003EMilestones:Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven \u0026#38; Hartford Railroad, 1907\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDedicated May 1982 - IEEE Connecticut Section. (ASME National Historic Engineering Landmark, jointly designated with IEEE). This was a pioneering venture in mainline railroad electrification. It established single-phase alternating current as a technical and economical alternative to direct current. This concept exerted considerable influence over subsequent systems both in the United States and abroad. The major components of the system were developed by the engineering staffs of the New York, New Haven \u0026amp; Hartford Railroad and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven \u0026 Hartford Railroad, 1907","link":"","lat":41.030191,"lon":-73.598839,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Alvin_Deep-Sea_Research_Submersible,_1965-1984#_728883cc33fb574ecdeec4d7f067732a\" title=\"Milestones:Alvin Deep-Sea Research Submersible, 1965-1984\"\u003EMilestones:Alvin Deep-Sea Research Submersible, 1965-1984\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1965, the U.S. Navy commissioned the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution\u2019s deep-sea submersible, \u003Ci\u003EAlvin\u003C/i\u003E. From 1974-84, \u003Ci\u003EAlvin\u2019s\u003C/i\u003E engineers developed acoustical navigation (ALNAV), communications, photography, lighting, and life support systems specifically intended for the deepest oceans. It became one of the world\u2019s most important deep-sea scientific instruments. \u003Ci\u003EAlvin\u003C/i\u003E discovered effects of pressure on seafloor microbes, and \u003Ci\u003EAlvin's\u003C/i\u003E study of hydrothermal vents revolutionized our understanding of life\u2019s origins.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Alvin Deep-Sea Research Submersible, 1965-1984","link":"","lat":41.525,"lon":-70.6717,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:American_Standard_Code_for_Information_Interchange_ASCII,_1963#_e26e954b399e4fe4450e2f76de3fb007\" title=\"Milestones:American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII, 1963\"\u003EMilestones:American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII, 1963\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EASCII, a character-encoding scheme originally based on the Latin alphabet, became the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web through 2007. ASCII is the basis of most modern character-encoding schemes. The American Standards Association X3.2 subcommittee published the first edition of the ASCII standard in 1963. Its first widespread commercial implementation was in the American Telephone \u0026amp; Telegraph (AT\u0026amp;T) Teletypewriter eXchange network and Teletype Model 33 teleprinters.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII, 1963","link":"","lat":40.3973552,"lon":-74.1376984,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Apollo_Guidance_Computer,_1962-1972#_be0eb21c72242fa74ed3339a7ff00a96\" title=\"Milestones:Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972\"\u003EMilestones:Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECharles Stark Draper Laboratory, 555 Technology Square Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. The Apollo Guidance Computer provided spacecraft guidance, navigation, and control during all of NASA\u2019s Apollo Moon missions. It was developed under the leadership of Dr. Charles Stark Draper at the MIT Instrumentation Lab - now Draper Laboratory. This pioneering \u0026#160;digital flight computer was the first real-time embedded computing system to collect data automatically and provide mission-critical calculations for the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972","link":"","lat":42.364842,"lon":-71.090839,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:BASIC_Computer_Language,_1964#_a24cd643b2ef6edb594dbec46e74c484\" title=\"Milestones:BASIC Computer Language, 1964\"\u003EMilestones:BASIC Computer Language, 1964\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBeginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) was created in this building. During the mid-1970s and 1980s, BASIC was the principal programming language used on early microcomputers. Its simplicity and wide acceptance made it useful in fields beyond science and mathematics, and enabled more people to harness the power of computation.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"BASIC Computer Language, 1964","link":"","lat":43.702668,"lon":-72.289845,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Bell_Telephone_Laboratories,_Inc.,_1925-1983#_b5f78069c52809699663eda091f36f71\" title=\"Milestones:Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1925-1983\"\u003EMilestones:Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1925-1983\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plaque may be viewed at Alcatel-Lucent, 600 Mountain Ave., Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1925-1983","link":"","lat":40.684376,"lon":-74.401628,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Demonstration_of_Practical_Telegraphy,_1838#_d3e95a8e31580ae4fb00a187553edf30\" title=\"Milestones:Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy, 1838\"\u003EMilestones:Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy, 1838\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E333 Speedwell Avenue, Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.A. Dedication: May 1988 - IEEE North Jersey Section. In this building in January 1838, Samuel F. B. Morse and Alfred Vail first demonstrated publicly crucial elements of their telegraph system, using instruments that Vail had constructed during the previous months. Electrical pulses, transmitted through two miles of wire, caused an electromagnet to ink dots and dashes (grouped to represent letters and words) on a strip of paper. Commercialization began in 1844 when funding became available.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy, 1838","link":"","lat":40.812,"lon":-74.4812,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Detection_of_Radar_Signals_Reflected_from_the_Moon,_1946#_81bc1b2813ef2253ea63056ced669a55\" title=\"Milestones:Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon, 1946\"\u003EMilestones:Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon, 1946\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 10 January 1946, a team of military and civilian personnel at Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, USA, reflected the first radar signals off the Moon using a specially modified SCR-270/1 radar. The signals took 2.5 seconds to travel to the Moon and back to the Earth. This achievement, Project Diana, marked the beginning of radar astronomy and space communications.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon, 1946","link":"","lat":40.18486,"lon":-74.05652,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Development_of_193-nm_Projection_Photolithography,_1984-1996#_84ee7ae25f31002c15855f44d5fc579e\" title=\"Milestones:Development of 193-nm Projection Photolithography, 1984-1996\"\u003EMilestones:Development of 193-nm Projection Photolithography, 1984-1996\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMIT Lincoln Laboratory pioneered the research, development, and demonstration of 193-nm projection lithography. This technology became the dominant high-resolution patterning technique, enabling the continuous performance scaling of integrated circuits for decades. During 1984\u20131996, Lincoln Laboratory established an international research center with industrial partners and consortia to guide microelectronic chip manufacturing with 193-nm lithography, which paved the way for its widespread commercial adoption.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Development of 193-nm Projection Photolithography, 1984-1996","link":"","lat":42.459061,"lon":-71.266997,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Development_of_Information_Theory,_1939-1967#_4e6a510ca72d3a7579d9869b3cf3e9d1\" title=\"Milestones:Development of Information Theory, 1939-1967\"\u003EMilestones:Development of Information Theory, 1939-1967\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe mathematical principles of Information Theory, laid down by Claude Elwood Shannon during the period 1939-1967, set in motion a revolution in communication system engineering. They quantified the concept of information, established fundamental limits in the representation and reliable transmission of information, and revealed the architecture of systems for approaching them. Today, Information Theory continues to provide the foundation for advances in information collection, storage, distribution, and processing.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Development of Information Theory, 1939-1967","link":"","lat":42.3616823,"lon":-71.0905606,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Electric_Fire_Alarm_System,_1852#_678e930ca827d219393799e098009ee5\" title=\"Milestones:Electric Fire Alarm System, 1852\"\u003EMilestones:Electric Fire Alarm System, 1852\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E59 Fenway, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. On 28 April 1852 the first municipal electric fire alarm system using call boxes with automatic signaling to indicate the location of a fire was placed into operation in Boston. Invented by William Channing and Moses Farmer, this system was highly successful in reducing property loss and deaths due to fire and was subsequently adopted throughout the United States and in Canada.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Electric Fire Alarm System, 1852","link":"","lat":42.343968,"lon":-71.090885,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:FM_Police_Radio_Communication,_1940#_caca4c07aeef655f445e5ef953ae91e3\" title=\"Milestones:FM Police Radio Communication, 1940\"\u003EMilestones:FM Police Radio Communication, 1940\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDepartment of Public Safety, State Police, 100 Washington St., Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Dedication: June 1987 - IEEE Connecticut Section. A major advance in police radio occurred in 1940 when the Connecticut state police began operating a two-way, frequency modulated (FM) system in Hartford. The statewide system developed by Daniel E. Noble of the University of Connecticut and engineers at the Fred M. Link Company greatly reduced static, the main problem of the amplitude modulated (AM) system. FM mobile radio became standard throughout the country following the success of the Connecticut system.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"FM Police Radio Communication, 1940","link":"","lat":41.759612,"lon":-72.681905,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Blind_Takeoff,_Flight_and_Landing,_1929#_18a6fd8107e395975d7031b8b91761b7\" title=\"Milestones:First Blind Takeoff, Flight and Landing, 1929\"\u003EMilestones:First Blind Takeoff, Flight and Landing, 1929\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe plaque may be viewed at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, 1 Charles Lindberg Blvd, Garden City, NY, U.S.A. On 24 September 1929, the first blind takeoff, flight and landing occurred at Mitchel Field, Garden City, NY in a Consolidated NY-2 biplane piloted by Lt. James Doolittle. Equipped with specially designed radio and aeronautical instrumentation, it represented the cooperative efforts of many organizations, mainly the Guggenheim Fund\u2019s Full Flight Laboratory, U.S. Army Air Corps, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Sperry Gyroscope Company, Kollsman Instrument Company and Radio Frequency Laboratories.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Blind Takeoff, Flight and Landing, 1929","link":"","lat":40.728077,"lon":-73.597389,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Intelligible_Voice_Transmission_over_Electric_Wire,_1876#_768c78ef7dbbf8ebfc67d4b8d1afb822\" title=\"Milestones:First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire, 1876\"\u003EMilestones:First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire, 1876\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECity Hall Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Dedication: 10 March 2006. The first transmission of intelligible speech over electrical wires took place on March 10, 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell called out to his assistant Thomas Watson, \"Mr. Watson, come here! I want to see you.\" This transmission took place in their attic laboratory located in a building near here at 5 Exeter Place.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire, 1876","link":"","lat":42.359377,"lon":-71.058043,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Optical_Fiber_Laser_and_Amplifier,_1961-1964#_4e9a3e2d8ed992c1e97082f3eebb1d8c\" title=\"Milestones:First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 1961-1964\"\u003EMilestones:First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 1961-1964\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPlaque may be viewed on the Southbridge, Massachusetts town common across from the old American Optical building and next to the Eyeglass Sculpture, Southbridge, MA, U.S.A. In 1961, Elias Snitzer and colleagues constructed and operated the world's first optical fiber laser in the former American Optical complex at 14 Mechanic Street. Three years later this team demonstrated the first optical fiber amplifier. Fiber lasers that can cut and weld steel have since become powerful industrial tools and fiber amplifiers routinely boost signals in the global optical fiber network allowing messages to cross oceans and continents without interruption.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 1961-1964","link":"","lat":42.075022,"lon":-72.026767,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Real-Time_Speech_Communication_on_Packet_Networks,_1974_-_1982#_ae9dd56663dd5cf6cda03f608861fb57\" title=\"Milestones:First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks, 1974 - 1982\"\u003EMilestones:First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks, 1974 - 1982\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn August 1974, the first real-time speech communication over a packet-switched network was demonstrated via ARPANET between MIT Lincoln Laboratory and USC Information Sciences Institute. By 1982, these technologies enabled Internet packet speech and conferencing linking terrestrial, packet radio, and satellite networks. This work in real-time network protocols and speech coding laid the foundation for voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) communications and related applications including Internet videoconferencing.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks, 1974 - 1982","link":"","lat":42.458626,"lon":-71.263568,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Transatlantic_Transmission_of_a_Television_Signal_via_Satellite,_1962#_101d3a7913286f4f1a76cc152b95e9fd\" title=\"Milestones:First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite, 1962\"\u003EMilestones:First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite, 1962\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndover, Maine, U.S.A. Dedication: July 2002 - IEEE Maine Section. On 11 July 1962 this site transmitted the first transatlantic TV signal to a twin station in Pleumeur-Bodou, France via the TELSTAR satellite. The success of TELSTAR and the earth stations, the first built for active satellite communications, illustrated the potential of a future world-wide satellite system to provide communications between continents.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite, 1962","link":"","lat":44.93875,"lon":-70.75005,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:First_Wireless_Radio_Broadcast_by_Reginald_A._Fessenden,_1906#_a1805dd757865fb6d32999b7f0af4a15\" title=\"Milestones:First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden, 1906\"\u003EMilestones:First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden, 1906\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBlackman\u2019s Point, Brant Rock, in the County of Plymouth Massachusetts. On 24 December 1906, the first radio broadcast for entertainment and music was transmitted from Brant Rock, Massachusetts to the general public. This pioneering broadcast was achieved after years of development work by Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (1866-1932) who built a complete system of wireless transmission and reception using amplitude modulation (AM) of continuous electromagnetic waves. This technology was a revolutionary departure from transmission of dots and dashes widespread at the time.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden, 1906","link":"","lat":42.081973,"lon":-70.640951,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:French_Transatlantic_Telegraph_Cable_of_1898#_6a4ed60f651e5b5f85864bba1d1ca6d0\" title=\"Milestones:French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable of 1898\"\u003EMilestones:French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable of 1898\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe submarine telegraph cable known as Le Direct provided communication between Europe and North America without intermediate relaying. In a remarkable feat of oceanic engineering, the cable was laid in the deepest waters of the Atlantic Ocean between Brest, France, and Orleans, Massachusetts. When completed in 1898 by La Compagnie Francaise des Cables Telegraphiques, it spanned 3174 nautical miles (5878 km), making it the longest and heaviest cable in service.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable of 1898","link":"","lat":41.7878355,"lon":-69.9874943,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Grand_Central_Terminal_Electrification,_1906-1913#_2e0041ddf27513654d7beee3821e3926\" title=\"Milestones:Grand Central Terminal Electrification, 1906-1913\"\u003EMilestones:Grand Central Terminal Electrification, 1906-1913\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrand Central Terminal, in continuous use since 1913, was the first large-scale railroad electrification project, a development that enabled it to become a major railroad terminal. The design of the Terminal included several notable achievements in the field of electric traction such as innovative designs of electric locomotives, multiple unit (MU) control of electric rolling stock and the pioneering use of underrunning third rail.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Grand Central Terminal Electrification, 1906-1913","link":"","lat":40.7527262,"lon":-73.9772294,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Grumman_Lunar_Module,_1962-1972#_04b03fa61578e62b533cdbbd0f67804d\" title=\"Milestones:Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972\"\u003EMilestones:Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENorthrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, 600 Grumman Road West, Bethpage, New York, U.S.A. The Grumman Lunar Module was the first vehicle to land man on an extraterrestrial body, the Moon. Because it was designed to fly solely in space, its design, construction and testing continuously pushed the technology envelope for lightweight metals and unique electrical and electronic systems resulting in one of the most important and successful engineering achievements of mankind.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972","link":"","lat":40.751609,"lon":-73.501845,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Handheld_Digital_Camera,_1975#_3b53ed496b9852087812fb5200885af8\" title=\"Milestones:Handheld Digital Camera, 1975\"\u003EMilestones:Handheld Digital Camera, 1975\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA self-contained portable digital camera was invented at an Eastman Kodak Company laboratory. It used movie camera optics, a charge-coupled device as an electronic light sensor, a temporary buffer of random-access memory, and image storage on a digital cassette. Subsequent commercial digital cameras using flash memory storage revolutionized how images are captured, processed, and shared, creating opportunities in commerce, education, and global communications.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Handheld Digital Camera, 1975","link":"","lat":43.198318,"lon":-77.630898,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Harvard_Mark_1_Computer,_1944_-_1959#_ab82e604dda37f28aaa00c4bc088e7cb\" title=\"Milestones:Harvard Mark 1 Computer, 1944 - 1959\"\u003EMilestones:Harvard Mark 1 Computer, 1944 - 1959\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Mark I computer was a general-purpose electro-mechanical computer that could execute long computations automatically. It was conceived by Harvard University's Dr. Howard Aiken, and built by International Business Machines Corporation in New York. The machine used mechanical punch-card tabulating equipment. Considered the first large-scale electro-mechanical computer, it was a leap forward in modern computing.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Harvard Mark 1 Computer, 1944 - 1959","link":"","lat":42.3763452,"lon":-71.1166043,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:IBM_Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Center,_1960_-_1984#_f9a3b4a70002eab12e7182d0869f3cf0\" title=\"Milestones:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984\"\u003EMilestones:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWatson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. In its first quarter century, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center produced numerous seminal advances having sustained worldwide impact in electrical engineering and computing. Semiconductor device innovations include dynamic random access memory (DRAM), superlattice crystals, and field effect transistor (FET) scaling laws. Computing innovations include reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, integer programming, amorphous magnetic films for optical storage technology, and thin-film magnetic recording heads.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984","link":"","lat":41.216193,"lon":-73.806002,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Interactive_Video_Games,_1966#_51b2adc2e4200a8a61620ed9fc276d76\" title=\"Milestones:Interactive Video Games, 1966\"\u003EMilestones:Interactive Video Games, 1966\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis site commemorates the creation of the Modified READ two-dimensional coding for G3 facsimile developed through the careful collaboration of NTT and KDDI. Strong Japanese leadership with intense international discussion, testing, and cooperation produced the International Telecommunications Union G3 recommendation in 1980. This innovative and efficient standard enabled the worldwide commercial success of facsimile\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Interactive Video Games, 1966","link":"","lat":42.7640789,"lon":-71.4581544,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Invention_of_the_First_Transistor_at_Bell_Telephone_Laboratories,_Inc.,_1947#_2d90ed3ec56e1a7d708283d9085ce526\" title=\"Milestones:Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1947\"\u003EMilestones:Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1947\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. At this site, in Building 1, Room 1E455, from 17 November to 23 December 1947, Walter H. Brattain and John A. Bardeen -- under the direction of William B. Shockley -- discovered the transistor effect, and developed and demonstrated a point-contact germanium transistor. This led directly to developments in solid-state devices that revolutionized the electronics industry and changed the way people around the world lived, learned, worked, and played.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1947","link":"","lat":40.684153,"lon":-74.401174,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Largest_Private_(dc)_Generating_Plant_in_the_U.S.A.,_1929#_230caec70cbc86e8171f1e34cae66ef0\" title=\"Milestones:Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929\"\u003EMilestones:Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHotel New Yorker, 8th Avenue and 34th st. New York, New York. The Direct Current (dc) generating plant installed at the New Yorker Hotel in 1929, capable of supplying electric power sufficient for a city of 35,000 people, was the largest private generating plant in the U.S.A. Steam engines drove electric generators, with exhaust steam used for heating and other facilities. The installation used more than two hundred dc motors, and was controlled from a seven-foot (two-meter) high, sixty-foot (eighteen-meter) long switchboard.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929","link":"","lat":40.752193,"lon":-73.993465,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Liquid_Crystal_Display,_1968#_27a5fbd167584ee070053a351e667f77\" title=\"Milestones:Liquid Crystal Display, 1968\"\u003EMilestones:Liquid Crystal Display, 1968\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Sarnoff Library, 201 Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Dedication: 30 September 06. Between 1964 and 1968, at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, a team of engineers and scientists led by George H. Heilmeier with Louis A. Zanoni and Lucian A. Barton, devised a method for electronic control of light reflected from liquid crystals and demonstrated the first liquid crystal display. Their work launched a global industry that now produces millions of LCDs annually for watches, calculators, flat-panel displays in televisions, computers and instruments.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Liquid Crystal Display, 1968","link":"","lat":40.331685,"lon":-74.631637,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Loran,_1940_-_1946#_f3a8c41ef34d2d3e10a1816045e7b26a\" title=\"Milestones:Loran, 1940 - 1946\"\u003EMilestones:Loran, 1940 - 1946\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E211 Massachusetts Ave, Boston, viewable by pedestrians from street. The rapid development of Loran -- long range navigation -- under wartime conditions at MIT\u2019s Radiation Lab was not only a significant engineering feat but also transformed navigation, providing the world\u2019s first near-real-time positioning information. Beginning in June 1942, the United States Coast Guard helped develop, install and operate Loran until 2010.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Loran, 1940 - 1946","link":"","lat":42.3616823,"lon":-71.0905606,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:MIT_Radiation_Laboratory,_1940-1945#_aa366c03567bbc9d8ad21b8c3a2f6c21\" title=\"Milestones:MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1940-1945\"\u003EMilestones:MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1940-1945\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOriginal Radiation Lab, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Dedication: October 1990 - IEEE Boston Section. The MIT Radiation Laboratory, operated on this site between 1940 and 1945, advanced the allied war effort by making fundamental contributions to the design and deployment of microwave radar systems. Used on land, sea, and in the air, in many adaptations, radar was a decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict. The laboratory's 3900 employees made lasting contributions to microwave theory and technology, operational radar, systems engineering, long-range navigation, and control equipment.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1940-1945","link":"","lat":42.37447,"lon":-71.105759,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Mode_S_Air_Traffic_Control_Radar_Beacon_System,_1969-1995#_eb56de856748983ae2bfabe76e5d854c\" title=\"Milestones:Mode S Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System, 1969-1995\"\u003EMilestones:Mode S Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System, 1969-1995\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1969, MIT Lincoln Laboratory began developing the Mode S selective secondary surveillance radar beacon system to enable safe air traffic control in busy, spectrum-congested airspace. This technology made more efficient use of the radio spectrum than previous systems. By 1995, the Mode S techniques and transmission codes became the worldwide standard for air traffic control radars.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Mode S Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System, 1969-1995","link":"","lat":42.459061,"lon":-71.266997,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Monochrome-Compatible_Electronic_Color_Television,_1946-1953#_becb3d03e1a353da8a962f7a7a856657\" title=\"Milestones:Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953\"\u003EMilestones:Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPrinceton, New Jersey, U.S.A. Dedication: November 2001, IEEE Princeton/Central New Jersey Section. On this site between 1946 and 1950 the research staff of RCA Laboratories invented the world's first electronic, monochrome-compatible, color television system. They worked with other engineers in the industry for three years to develop a national analog standard based on this system, which lasted until the transition to digital broadcasting.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953","link":"","lat":40.331685,"lon":-74.631637,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Neutrodyne_Circuit,_1922#_cecb61558b5d935375fe2f9c4462f839\" title=\"Milestones:Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922\"\u003EMilestones:Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Neutrodyne Circuit, invented near this site in 1922, used neutralizing capacitors to eliminate squeals from parasitic oscillation that plagued early radios. Improved clarity of reception and easier tuning facilitated broader radio adoption by the general public. Multiple manufacturers licensed the circuit to make affordable consumer products, expanding the marketplace from amateur radio operators into a mass consumer market for news, information, music, and culture.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Neutrodyne Circuit, 1922","link":"","lat":40.742287,"lon":-74.027778,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Pearl_Street_Station,_1882#_af1ce09a41a2e029804d930298827098\" title=\"Milestones:Pearl Street Station, 1882\"\u003EMilestones:Pearl Street Station, 1882\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConEd Building, 4 Irving Place, New York, NY, U.S.A. Thomas Alva Edison established the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, now Consolidated Edison, to commercialize his 1879 incandescent lamp invention. On 4 September 1882, Edison\u2019s direct current (dc) generating station at 257 Pearl Street, began supplying electricity to customers in the First District, a one-quarter square mile (0.65 square km) area. This installation was the forerunner of all central electric generating stations.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Pearl Street Station, 1882","link":"","lat":40.734135,"lon":-73.988637,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Piezoelectric_Oscillator,_1921-1923#_1ee7e8e6717cf182170541c4d683775b\" title=\"Milestones:Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923\"\u003EMilestones:Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1921, research at Wesleyan led to development of the first circuit to control frequencies based on a quartz crystal resonator. This technique was later applied in standards of frequency as a filter and for coupling between circuits. Piezoelectric quartz oscillators advanced ultrasonics, sonar, radar, and myriads of other electronic applications. They appeared in everyday life through their use in quartz wristwatches.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Piezoelectric Oscillator, 1921-1923","link":"","lat":41.553366,"lon":-71.657601,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Power_System_of_Boston%27s_Rapid_Transit,_1889#_57a1adb10a75ec89f07f44e3165be0d6\" title=\"Milestones:Power System of Boston\u0026#39;s Rapid Transit, 1889\"\u003EMilestones:Power System of Boston\u0026#39;s Rapid Transit, 1889\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDedication: 10 November 2004, IEEE Boston Section. Ten Park Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Boston was the first city to build electric traction for a large-scale rapid transit system. The engineering challenge to design and construct safe, economically viable, and reliable electric power for Boston's rapid transit was met by the West End Street Railway Company, beginning in 1889. The company's pioneering efforts provided an important impetus to the adoption of mass transit systems nationwide.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit, 1889","link":"","lat":42.356478,"lon":-71.062507,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:RCA_Central,_1921#_b6b850b7c60fca202f92b3948e29d206\" title=\"Milestones:RCA Central, 1921\"\u003EMilestones:RCA Central, 1921\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn 5 November 1921, the world\u2019s most powerful transoceanic radio facility at the time, RCA Radio Central, was inaugurated. Located at Rocky Point and Riverhead, New York, its Alexanderson 220 kW, 18.3 kHz transmitters and Beverage long-wire receiving antennas provided reliable worldwide radio communications. In succeeding years, RCA's research laboratory also developed diversity radio reception, rhombic and folded-dipole antennas, the first transoceanic single side-band channels, and commercial facsimile service.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"RCA Central, 1921","link":"","lat":40.89668,"lon":-72.94543,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:SAGE-Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment,_1951-1958#_ee678dbcb4af0358280cf39330b8b4ef\" title=\"Milestones:SAGE-Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, 1951-1958\"\u003EMilestones:SAGE-Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, 1951-1958\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELincoln Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, MA. In 1951 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology undertook the development of an air defense system for the United States. The centerpiece of this defense system was a large digital computer originally developed at MIT. The MIT Lincoln Laboratory was formed to carry out the initial development of this system and the first of some 23 SAGE control centers was completed in 1958. SAGE was the forerunner of today\u2019s digital computer networks.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"SAGE-Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, 1951-1958","link":"","lat":42.458626,"lon":-71.263568,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:SCR/Thyristor,_1957#_a332b63b38030463f0e6472367643e40\" title=\"Milestones:SCR/Thyristor, 1957\"\u003EMilestones:SCR/Thyristor, 1957\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeneral Electric introduced the silicon controlled rectifier (SCR), a three-terminal p-n-p-n device, in 1957. The gas-filled tubes used previously were difficult to operate and unreliable. The symmetrical alternating current switch (TRIAC), the gate turn-off thyristor (GTO), and the large integrated gate-commutated thyristor (IGCT) evolved from the SCR. Its development revolutionized efficient control of electric energy and electrical machines.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"SCR/Thyristor, 1957","link":"","lat":43.084319,"lon":-76.875856,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Semiconductor_Laser,_1962#_b9c2a26d75cf2a532117e8a85d2014ac\" title=\"Milestones:Semiconductor Laser, 1962\"\u003EMilestones:Semiconductor Laser, 1962\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the autumn of 1962, General Electric\u2019s Schenectady and Syracuse facilities, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and MIT Lincoln Laboratory each independently reported the first demonstrations of the semiconductor laser. Smaller than a grain of rice, powered using direct current injection, and available at wavelengths spanning the ultraviolet to the infrared, the semiconductor laser became ubiquitous in modern communications, data storage, and precision measurement systems.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Semiconductor Laser, 1962","link":"","lat":42.8312,"lon":-73.8797,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:TIROS_I_Television_Infrared_Observation_Satellite,_1960#_4be971039c78277973c9bfc8e93bb786\" title=\"Milestones:TIROS I Television Infrared Observation Satellite, 1960\"\u003EMilestones:TIROS I Television Infrared Observation Satellite, 1960\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESarnoff Library, Princeton, NJ. On 1 April 1960, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration launched TIROS I, the world's first meteorological satellite, to capture and transmit video images of the Earth's weather patterns. RCA staff at Defense Electronics Products, the David Sarnoff Research Center, and Astro-Electronics Division designed and constructed the satellite and ground station systems. TIROS I pioneered meteorological and environmental satellite television for an expanding array of purposes.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"TIROS I Television Infrared Observation Satellite, 1960","link":"","lat":40.331685,"lon":-74.631637,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:The_First_Two-Dimensional_Nuclear_Magnetic_Resonance_Image_(MRI),_1973#_bf2de732311c1d616bfe52f2816f2750\" title=\"Milestones:The First Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI), 1973\"\u003EMilestones:The First Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI), 1973\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EResearchers at Stony Brook University produced the first two-dimensional image using nuclear magnetic resonance in 1973.The proton distribution of the object, a test tube of water, was distinctly encoded using magnetic field gradients. This achievement was a major advance for MRI and paved the way for its worldwide usage as a noninvasive method to examine body tissue for disease detection.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"The First Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI), 1973","link":"","lat":40.9126624,"lon":-73.1298849,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Thomas_A._Edison_West_Orange_Laboratories_and_Factories,_1887#_cb0fe26e2371c30fcf18a68e42374ef3\" title=\"Milestones:Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories, 1887\"\u003EMilestones:Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories, 1887\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWest Orange, NJ. Thomas Alva Edison, a West Orange resident from 1886 until his death in 1931, established his final and most comprehensive laboratory and factory complex about one-half mile (0.8 km) north of here in 1887. Edison's visionary combination in one organization of basic and applied research, development, and manufacturing became the prototype for industrial enterprises worldwide. Work here resulted in more than half of Edison's 1,093 patents.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories, 1887","link":"","lat":40.778479,"lon":-74.239051,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Thomas_Alva_Edison_Historic_Site_at_Menlo_Park,_1876#_e1eca6a46eeb1e31274af86bf499ee6d\" title=\"Milestones:Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park, 1876\"\u003EMilestones:Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park, 1876\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMenlo Park, Edison, NJ. Dedication: 9 September 2006. Between 1876 and 1882 at Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison developed the world's first industrial research and development laboratory devoted to developing new technology. At this laboratory. Edison and his staff developed the first system of incandescent electric lighting and electric power generation, and invented recorded sound and a commercially successful telephone transmitter.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park, 1876","link":"","lat":40.56503,"lon":-74.33743,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Trans-Atlantic_Telephone_Fiber-Optic_Submarine_Cable_(TAT-8),_1988#_8c4aded66e705960613d2da41e4ddf04\" title=\"Milestones:Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable (TAT-8), 1988\"\u003EMilestones:Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable (TAT-8), 1988\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETAT-8, the first fiber-optic cable to cross an ocean, entered service 14 December 1988. AT\u0026amp;T, British Telecom, and France Telecom led the consortium that built TAT-8, which spanned a seabed distance of 5,846 km between North America and Europe. AT\u0026amp;T Bell Laboratories developed the foundational technologies: 1.3 micron fiber, cable, splicing, laser detector, and 280 Mbps repeater for 40,000 telephone-call capacity. Bell Labs led the integration at Freehold, New Jersey.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable (TAT-8), 1988","link":"","lat":40.3974427,"lon":-74.1356015,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Two-Way_Police_Radio_Communication,_1933#_8935cb7a117b8f5a8aae9b28e30068a5\" title=\"Milestones:Two-Way Police Radio Communication, 1933\"\u003EMilestones:Two-Way Police Radio Communication, 1933\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E26th Street and Avenue C, Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S.A. Dedication: May 1987 - IEEE North Jersey Section. In 1933, the police department in Bayonne, New Jersey initiated regular two-way communications with its patrol cars, a major advance over previous one-way systems. The very high frequency system developed by radio engineer Frank A. Gunther and station operator Vincent J. Doyle placed transmitters in patrol cars to enable patrolmen to communicate with headquarters and other cars instead of just receiving calls. Two-way police radio became standard throughout the country following the success of the Bayonne system.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Two-Way Police Radio Communication, 1933","link":"","lat":40.667603,"lon":-74.11844,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Weston_Meters,_1887-1893#_7967928ed89828b60b41ab0c4d3610f2\" title=\"Milestones:Weston Meters, 1887-1893\"\u003EMilestones:Weston Meters, 1887-1893\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEdward Weston and the Weston Electrical Instrument Company introduced the first portable and direct-reading current and voltage meters in 1888-1893. Weston's inventions enabling these meters included: the first truly permanent magnets; temperature-insensitive conductors; low-resistance and non-magnetic springs; metal coil frames where induced eddy currents provided pointer damping (1887); the electric shunt (1893) for the measurement of large currents; and multiple current ranges in a single meter.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Weston Meters, 1887-1893","link":"","lat":40.7424805,"lon":-74.1770996,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Whirlwind_Computer,_1944-59#_2fc9892dd536998878a63ac2d4e8a944\" title=\"Milestones:Whirlwind Computer, 1944-59\"\u003EMilestones:Whirlwind Computer, 1944-59\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Whirlwind computer was developed at 211 Massachusetts Avenue by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was the first real-time high-speed digital computer using random-access magnetic-core memory. Whirlwind featured outputs displayed on a CRT, and a light pen to write data on the screen. Whirlwind\u02bcs success led to the United States Air Force\u02bcs Semi Automatic Ground Environment - SAGE - system and to many business computers and minicomputers\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Whirlwind Computer, 1944-59","link":"","lat":42.361244,"lon":-71.096663,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:World%27s_First_Low-Loss_Optical_Fiber_for_Telecommunications,_1970#_0b85242b53194bd65b76870c4e2556ff\" title=\"Milestones:World\u0026#39;s First Low-Loss Optical Fiber for Telecommunications, 1970\"\u003EMilestones:World\u0026#39;s First Low-Loss Optical Fiber for Telecommunications, 1970\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1970, Corning scientists Dr. Robert Maurer, Dr. Peter Schultz, and Dr. Donald Keck developed a highly pure optical glass that effectively transmitted light signals over long distances. This astounding medium, which is thinner than a human hair, revolutionized global communications. By 2011, the world depended upon the continuous transmission of voice, data, and video along more than 1.6 billion kilometers of optical fiber installed around the globe.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"World's First Low-Loss Optical Fiber for Telecommunications, 1970","link":"","lat":42.162019,"lon":-77.094137,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"}],"imageLayers":[]}

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The design of the Terminal included several notable achievements in the field of electric traction such as innovative designs of electric locomotives, multiple unit (MU) control of electric rolling stock and the pioneering use of underrunning third rail.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Grand Central Terminal Electrification, 1906-1913","link":"","lat":40.7527262,"lon":-73.9772294,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:IBM_Thomas_J._Watson_Research_Center,_1960_-_1984#_f9a3b4a70002eab12e7182d0869f3cf0\" title=\"Milestones:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984\"\u003EMilestones:IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWatson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. In its first quarter century, the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center produced numerous seminal advances having sustained worldwide impact in electrical engineering and computing. Semiconductor device innovations include dynamic random access memory (DRAM), superlattice crystals, and field effect transistor (FET) scaling laws. Computing innovations include reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture, integer programming, amorphous magnetic films for optical storage technology, and thin-film magnetic recording heads.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984","link":"","lat":41.216193,"lon":-73.806002,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Largest_Private_(dc)_Generating_Plant_in_the_U.S.A.,_1929#_230caec70cbc86e8171f1e34cae66ef0\" title=\"Milestones:Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929\"\u003EMilestones:Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHotel New Yorker, 8th Avenue and 34th st. New York, New York. The Direct Current (dc) generating plant installed at the New Yorker Hotel in 1929, capable of supplying electric power sufficient for a city of 35,000 people, was the largest private generating plant in the U.S.A. Steam engines drove electric generators, with exhaust steam used for heating and other facilities. The installation used more than two hundred dc motors, and was controlled from a seven-foot (two-meter) high, sixty-foot (eighteen-meter) long switchboard.\n\u003C/p\u003E","title":"Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929","link":"","lat":40.752193,"lon":-73.993465,"icon":"/w/images/6/6a/Purplemarker.png"},{"text":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\"/Milestones:Pearl_Street_Station,_1882#_af1ce09a41a2e029804d930298827098\" title=\"Milestones:Pearl Street Station, 1882\"\u003EMilestones:Pearl Street Station, 1882\u003C/a\u003E\n\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConEd Building, 4 Irving Place, New York, NY, U.S.A. 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