Milestones:List of Milestones by Dedication Year
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Milestones By Year Dedicated And Region
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Year Dedicated | Short Name | Region |
1977 | Vulcan Street hydroelectric plant | 4 |
1982 | Electrification of New York and New Haven Raillroad | 1 |
1984 | Stanford Linear Accelerator | 6 |
1985 | Landing of transatlantic telegraph | 7 |
1985 | Reception of transatlantic radio signals | 7 |
1985 | Westinghouse atom smasher | 2 |
1986 | First Central station in South Carolina | 3 |
1987 | One-way police radio | 4 |
1987 | Two-way police radio | 1 |
1987 | FM police radio | 1 |
1987 | ENIAC | 2 |
1988 | Morse telegraph | 1 |
1988 | Ames Hydroelectric station | 5 |
1989 | Manufacture of transistors | 2 |
1990 | Transcontinental telegraph | 5 |
1990 | Adams hydroelectric plant | 1 |
1990 | Atanasoff-Berry computer | 4 |
1990 | MIT radiation lab | 1 |
1991 | Shoshone transmission line | 5 |
1992 | Richmond Passenger railway | 3 |
1992 | Alexanderson Radio alternator | 1 |
1993 | Alouette-Isis satellite | 7 |
1994 | Poulsen Arc radio transmitter | 8 |
1994 | KDKA radio station | 2 |
1995 | Yagi antenna | 10 |
1997 | Mill Creek hydroelectric plant | 6 |
1999 | Volta’s battery 8Georgetown steam/hydro plant | 5 |
1999 | Operational use of wireless | 8 |
1999 | Merril wheel balancing system | 5 |
1999 | First wearable cardiac pacemaker | 4 |
2000 | County Kerry transatlantic telegraph | 8 |
2000 | Opana radar | 6 |
2000 | Mount Fuji radar | 10 |
2000 | Shinkansen | 10 |
2001 | Chivilingo hydroelectric plant | 9 |
2001 | Transmission of transatlantic radio | 8 |
2001 | Byrd Antarctic shortwave | 4 |
2001 | US Naval Computing lab | 2 |
2001 | Color television | 2 |
2001 | Arecibo radio telescope | 9 |
2001 | Electrical technology for space launches | 3 |
2002 | Shannon electrification | 8 |
2002 | Transatlantic television by satellite | 1,8 |
2002 | Work on quartz wristwatch | 8 |
2003 | Marconi early wireless experiments | 8 |
2003 | Franklin’s London work | 8 |
2003 | Panama Canal electrical installations | 9 |
2003 | Bletchley Park code breaking | 8 |
2004 | Boston electric fire alarm | 1 |
2004 | Alternating Current electrification | 1 |
2004 | Boston Rapid transit power system | 1 |
2004 | Decew Falls hydroelectric plant | 7 |
2004 | Fleming valve | 8 |
2004 | Experimental Breeder Reactor | 6 |
2004 | Commercial quartz wristwatch | 10 |
2004 | Lempel-Ziv algorithm | 8 |
2005 | Popov’s radio work | 8 |
2005 | Vucje Hydroelectric plant | 8 |
2005 | RAMAC | 6 |
2005 | Taum Sauk Pumped Storage plant | 5 |
2005 | First 735 kV Act transmission system | 7 |
2005 | CERN instrumentation | 8 |
2005 | Nelson River HVDC | 7 |
2005 | Pioneering work on electronic calculators | 10 |
2006 | Callan’s Pioneering contributions | 8 |
2006 | First intelligible speech over wire | 1 |
2006 | Edison site at Menlo Park | 1 |
2006 | WEIZAC computer | 8 |
2006 | TAT-1 telephone cable | 7,8 |
2006 | Liquid Crystal Display | 2 |
2006 | Development of VHS | 10 |
2007 | Early remote-control | 8 |
2007 | Railroad ticketing examining system | 10 |
2008 | First distant speech transmission | 7 |
2008 | Edison Lab and Factory at West Orange | 1 |
2008 | Piniwa Hydroelectric | 7 |
2008 | Fessenden broadcast | 1 |
2008 | Largest DC generating plant in USA | 1 |
2008 | Japanese word processor | 10 |
2009 | Yosami transmitting station | 10 |
2009 | Pocket-sized electronic calculator | 6 |
2009 | Planar process integrated circuit | 6 |
2009 | Shilling early telegraph work | 8 |
2009 | First external pacemaker | 7 |
2010 | Kurobe Hydropower Plant | 10 |
2010 | Commercialization of Photovoltaic Cells | 10 |
2010 | Star of Laufenburg Interconnection | 8 |
2010 | TIROS Satellite | 1 |
2010 | Discovery of Radioconduction (Branly) | 8 |
2010 | Invention of Public-key Cryptography | 8 |
2010 | First TV Broadcast in Western Canada | 7 |
2010 | Demonstration of Working Laser | 6 |
2010 | Radio Astronomy Using VLBI | 7 |
2010 | First 16-bit Monolithic DAC | 5 |
2010 | TRIUMF Cyclotron | 7 |
02/24/2011 | Eel River HVDC Converter | 7 |
2/4/2011 | Mercury Spacecraft controls | 5 |
2/20/2011 | SPICE Circuit Simulation Program | 6 |
4/8/2011 | Discovery of Superconductivity | 8 |
4/29/2011 | Marconi’s First Wireless Experiments | 8 |
5/10/2011 | Pearl Street Station | 1 |
7/20/2011 | Lunar Module 20 July 2011 | 1 |
11/18/2011 | First Satellite Broadcast to the Public | 10 |
12/8/2011 | Real-Time Packet Switching | 1 |
12/12/2011 | Apollo Guidance Computer | 1 |
1/31/2012 | Field Effect Electron Microscope | 10 |
4/5/2012 | G3 Facsimile | 10 |
5/1/2012 | Low Loss Optical Fiber | 1 |
6/21/2012 | B&O Railroad electrification | 2 |
6/27/2012 | LORAN | 1 |
6/27/2012 | Whirlwind Computer | 1 |
6/27/2012 | SAGE system | 1 |
8/3/2012 | First Reliable HV Fuse | 4 |
8/21/2012 | Floating Gate EEPROM | 6 |
9/15/2012 | Bose experiments in radio | 10 |
9/15/2012 | Raman Effect | 10 |
10/22/2012 | Bar Code | 2 |
10/26/2012 | First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier | 1, Photonics Society |
2012 | Rincon del Bonete [LF] | 9 |
- Regions 1-7: 66
- Regions 8-10: 44