List of IEEE milestones
This list of IEEE Milestones describes the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) milestones, representing key historical achievements in electrical and electronic engineering.[1]
Prior to 1800
- 1751 – Book Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin
- 1757–1775 – Benjamin Franklin's Work in London
- 1799 – Alessandro Volta's Electrical Battery Invention
1800–1850
- 1836 – Nicholas Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology
- 1828–1837 – Pavel Schilling's Pioneering Contribution to Practical Telegraphy
- 1838 – Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy
1850–1870
- 1852 – Electric Fire Alarm System
- 1861–1870 – Maxwell's Equations
- 1861 – Transcontinental Telegraph
- 1866 – Landing of the Transatlantic Cable
- 1866 – County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations
1870–1890
- 1876 – First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire
- 1876 – First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada
- 1876 – Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park
- 1882 – Vulcan Street Plant
- 1882 – Pearl Street Station
- 1882 – First Central Station in South Carolina
- 1884 – First AIEE Technical Meeting
- 1886 – Alternating Current Electrification (demonstrated by William Stanley, Jr.)
- 1886 – First Generation and Experimental Proof of Electromagnetic Waves
- 1887 – Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories
- 1887 – Weston Meters, first portable current and voltage meters
- 1888 – Richmond Union Passenger Railway
- 1889 – Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit
1890–1900
- 1890 – Discovery of Radioconduction with a Coherer by Édouard Branly
- 1890 – Keage Power Station, Japan's First Commercial Hydroelectric Plant
- 1891 – Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- 1893 – Birth and Growth of Battery Industries in Japan
- 1893 – Mill Creek No. 1 Hydroelectric Plant
- 1894 – Millimeter-wave Communication Experiments by Jagadish Chandra Bose
- 1895 – Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication
- 1895 – Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- 1895 – Krka-Šibenik Electric Power System
- 1895 – Guglielmo Marconi's Experiments in Wireless Telegraphy
- 1895 – Electrification by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
- 1897 – Early Swiss Wireless Experiments that sent a signal over one and a half kilometers.
- 1897 – Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant
- 1898 – Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant
- 1898 – Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant
- 1899 – First Operational Use Of Wireless Telegraphy in the Anglo-Boer War
1900–1920
- 1900 – Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant
- 1901 – Transmission of Transatlantic Radio Signals
- 1901 – Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals
- 1901 – Early Developments in Remote-Control by Leonardo Torres-Quevedo
- 1902 – Poulsen-Arc Radio Transmitter
- 1903 – Vucje Hydroelectric Plant
- 1904 – Alexanderson Radio Alternator
- 1904 – Fleming Valve
- 1906 – Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project
- 1906 – First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden
- 1906 – Grand Central Terminal Electrification
- 1907 – Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- 1909 – Shoshone Transmission Line
- 1911 – Discovery of superconductivity
- 1914 – Panama Canal Electrical and Control Installations
1920–1930
- 1920 – Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA (AM)
- 1920 – Funkerberg Königs Wusterhausen first radio broadcast in Germany
- 1924 – Directive Short Wave Antenna (Yagi-Uda antenna)
- 1924 – Enrico Fermi's Major Contribution to Semiconductor Statistics
- 1924–1941 – Development of Electronic Television
- 1925 – Bell Telephone Laboratories
- 1928 – One-Way Police Radio Communication
- 1929 – Shannon Scheme for the Electrification of the Irish Free State
- 1929 – Yosami Radio Transmitting Station
- 1929 – Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A.
- 1929 – First Blind Takeoff, Flight and Landing
1930–1950
- 1930–1945 – Development of Ferrite Materials and Their Applications
- 1931 – Invention of Stereo Sound Reproduction
- 1932 – First Breaking of Enigma Code by the Team of Polish Cipher Bureau
- 1933 – Two-Way Police Radio Communication
- 1934 – Long-Range Shortwave Voice Transmissions from Byrd's Antarctic Expedition
- 1937 – Westinghouse Atom Smasher
- 1939 – Atanasoff–Berry Computer
- 1939 – Claude Shannon, development of Information Theory
- 1939 – Single-element Unidirectional Microphone - Shure Unidyne
- 1940 – FM Police Radio Communication
- 1941 – Opana Radar Site
- 1939–1945 – Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II
- 1940–1945 – MIT Radiation Laboratory
- 1942–1945 – US Naval Computing Machine Laboratory
- 1945 – Merrill Wheel-Balancing System
- 1945 – Rincón del Bonete Plant and Transmission System
- 1946 – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
- 1947 – Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
- 1947 – Invention of Holography
- 1948 – Birth of the Barcode
- 1948 – Junction transistor at Bell Labs
1950–1960
- 1950 – First External Cardiac Pacemaker
- 1951 – Manufacture of Transistors
- 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I
- 1946–1953 – Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television
- 1954 - HVDC Gotland, the first fully commercial static plant for high-voltage direct current transmission (HVDC)
- 1955 – WEIZAC Computer
- 1956 – RAMAC
- 1956 – Ampex Videotape Recorder
- 1956 – The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1)
- 1957–1958 – First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker
- 1958 – First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) by Jack Kilby
- 1959 – Semiconductor planar process by Jean Hoerni and silicon integrated circuit by Robert Noyce
- 1959 – MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor), also known as the MOS transistor, by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs
- 1959 – Commercialization and industrialization of photovoltaic cells by Sharp Corporation
1960–1970
- 1960–1984 – IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- 1961–1964 – First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier
- 1962 – Mercury spacecraft MA-6, Col. John Glenn piloted the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft in the first FAI-legal completed human-orbital flight on 20 February 1962.[2]
- 1962 – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- 1962 – First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite
- 1962 – First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite
- 1962 – First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite
- 1962 – Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program
- 1962–1967 – Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch
- 1963 – NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope
- 1963 – First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite
- 1963 – Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant
- 1963 – ASCII
- 1964 – Mount Fuji Radar System
- 1964 – Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
- 1964 – High-definition television
- 1964 – TPC-1 Transpacific Cable System
- 1964–1973 – Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators by Sharp Corporation
- 1965 – First 735 kV AC Transmission System
- 1965 – Dadda multiplier
- 1965–1971 – Railroad Ticketing Examining System (developed by OMRON of Japan)
- 1966 – Interactive Video Games
- 1966 – Shakey, the first mobile robot to be able to reason about its own actions[3]
- 1966 – First online search system Dialog, originally developed in Lockheed Martin, now owned by ProQuest
- 1967 – First Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry
- 1968 – Liquid Crystal Display by George H. Heilmeier
- 1968 – CERN Experimental Instrumentation
- 1969 – Birth of the Internet
- 1969 – Inception of the ARPANET
- 1950–1969 – Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches
- 1969 – Electronic Quartz Wristwatch
1970–present
- 1970 - SPICE Circuit Simulation Program
- 1971–1978 – The First Word Processor for the Japanese Language
- 1972 – Nelson River HVDC Transmission System
- 1972 – Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator
- 1974 – Birth of CP/M Operating System
- 1975 – Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOSA) for electric power systems
- 1975 – Line Spectrum Pair (LSP) for high-compression speech coding (developed by NTT)
- 1976 – Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording
- 1976 – Introduction of the Apple I Computer
- 1977 – Introduction of the Apple II Computer
- 1977 – Lempel–Ziv Data Compression Algorithm
- 1977 – Vapor-phase Axial Deposition Method for Mass Production of High-quality Optical Fiber
- 1978 – Digital Image from Synthetic Aperture Radar
- 1978 – Speak & Spell, the First Use of a Digital Signal Processing IC for Speech Generation
- 1979 – Compact Disc Audio Player
- 1979 – 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes
- 1980 – International Standardization of Group 3 Facsimile
- 1980 – RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) Microprocessor
- 1981 – 16-Bit Monolithic Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) for Digital Audio
- 1981 – Map-Based Automotive Navigation System
- 1984 – First Direct-broadcast satellite Service
- 1984 – The MU (Middle and Upper atmosphere) radar
- 1985 – Toshiba T1100, for Contribution to the Development of Laptop PCs
- 1985 – Emergency Warning Code Signal Broadcasting System
- 1987 – High Temperature Superconductor
- 1987 – SPARC RISC Architecture
- 1988 – Sharp 14-Inch Thin Film Transistor Liquid-Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) for TV
- 1988 – Solid State High Voltage DC Converter Station
- 1988 – Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-optic Submarine Cable, TAT-8
- 1988 – Virginia Smith High-Voltage Direct-Current Converter Station
- 1989 – Development of CDMA for Cellular Communications
Special citations
- 1856–1943 – Nikola Tesla, Electrical Pioneer
- 1979 – Computer History Museum
References
- List of IEEE Milestones
- While Soviet spacecraft had made human orbital flights prior, they are not FAI-certified, because the pilots ejected from the spacecraft before landing, which by FAI rules denotes an uncompleted (or failed) flight.
- "SRI International's Shakey the Robot to be Honored with "IEEE Milestone" at the Computer History Museum". Retrieved 2017-02-17.
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