Milestones:List of Milestones by Region
List of Milestones by Region
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Region I
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
Merril Wheel Balancing System Denver
2005 Taum Sauk 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
Planar Process Integrated Circuit Santa Clara Valley
Birthplace of Internet Coastal Los Angeles
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
Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals Newfoundland-Labrador
1993 Alouette-Isis Satellite Ottawa
2004 Decew Falls Hydroelectric Plant Hamilton
2005 735kV AC Transmission system Quebec
Nelson River HVDC Winnipeg
2006 TAT-1 Telephone Cable Newfoundland-Labrador and Canadian Atlantic
2008 First Distant Speech Transmission Hamilton
Piniwa Hydroelectric Winnipeg
2009 First External Pacemaker Toronto
2010 First TV Broadcast in Western Canada Vancouver
Radio Astronomy Using VLBA Vancouver
TRIUMF Cyclotron Vancouver
2011 Eel River HVDC Converter New Brunswick
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
Lempel-Ziv Algorithm Israel
2005 Popov's Radio Work Russia Northwest
Vucje Hydroelectric Plant Yugoslavia
CERN Instrumentation France
2006 Callan's Pioneering Contributions UKRI
WEIZAC Computer Israel
TAT-1 Telephone Cable UKRI
2007 Early Remote Control Spain
2009 Maxwell's Equations UKRI
Shilling Early Telegraph Russia Northwest
Compact Disc Player Benelux
2010 Star of Laufenburg Interconnection Switzerland
Branly's Discovery of Radioconduction France
Public-Key Cryptography UKRI
2011 Discovery of Superconductivity Benelux
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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