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:
- Locations of IEEE Milestones on a map
- List of All IEEE Milstones
- List of Milestones by Dedication Year
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
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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