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
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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
|
2001
|
Monochrome-Compatible Color TV
|
Princeton/Central New Jersey
|
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
|
2006
|
Liquid Crystal Display
|
Princeton/Central New Jersey
|
2008
|
Edison Lab and Factory,West Orange
|
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
|
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
|
2001
|
Arecibo Radio Telescope
|
Puerto Rico and Carribean
|
2003
|
Panama Canal Electrical Installations
|
Panama
|
2012
|
Rincon del Bonete
|
Uruguay
|
Region 10
1995
|
Yagi Antenna
|
Tokyo
|
2000
|
Mount Fuji Radar
|
Nagoya
|
2000
|
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
|
2009
|
Development of Ferrite Materials
|
Tokyo
|
2009
|
Yosami Transmitting Station
|
Nagoya
|
2009
|
Transpacific Reception of Satellite TV
|
Tokyo
|
2010
|
Kurobe Hydropower Plant
|
Kansai
|
2010
|
Commercialization of Photovoltaics
|
Kansai
|
2011
|
First Satellite Broadcast to the Public
|
Tokyo
|
2012
|
Bose Millimeter Wave Experiments
|
Kolkata
|
2012
|
Raman Effect
|
Kolkata
|
2012
|
Field Effect Electron Microscope
|
Tokyo
|
2012
|
G3 Facsimile
|
Tokyo
|
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