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.

* Pre-1800
** 1757-1775 - Benjamin Franklin's Work in London
** 1799 - Alessandro Volta's Electrical Battery Invention

* 1800-1850
** 1836 - Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology
** 1838 - Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy

* 1850-1889
** 1852 - Electric Fire Alarm System
** 1861 - Transcontinental Telegraph
** 1866 - Landing of the Transatlantic Cable
** 1866 - County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations
** 1876 - Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park
** 1876 - First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire
** 1882 - First Central Station in South Carolina
** 1886 - Alternating Current Electrification
** 1888 - Richmond Union Passenger Railway
** 1889 - Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit

* 1890s
** 1891 - Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
** 1895 - Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant
** 1895 - Marconi's Early Wireless Experiments
** 1895 - Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication
** 1897 - Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant
** 1898 - Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant
** 1899-1902 - First Operational Use of Wireless Telegraphy

* 1900-1929
** 1900 - Georgetown Steam/Hydro Generating Plant
** 1901 - Early Developments in Remote-Control
** 1901 - Transmission of Transatlantic Radio Signals
** 1901 - Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals
** 1902 - Poulsen-Arc Radio Transmitter
** 1903 - Vucje Hydroelectric Plant
** 1904 - Alexanderson Radio Alternator
** 1904 - Fleming valve
** 1909 - Shoshone Transmission Line
** 1914 - Panama Canal Electrical and Control Installations
** 1920 - Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA
** 1924 - Directive Short Wave Antenna (Yagi-Uda antenna)
** 1928 - One-Way Police Radio Communication

* 1930s
** 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
** 1939-1945 - Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II

* 1940s
** 1940 - FM Police Radio Communication
** 1940-1945 - MIT Radiation Laboratory
** 1941 - Opana Radar Site
** 1942-1945 - US Naval Computing Machine Laboratory
** 1946 - ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
** 1946-1953 - Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television

* 1950s
** 1950-1969 - Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches
** 1951 - Experimental Breeder Reactor I
** 1951 - Manufacture of Transistor
** 1955 - WEIZAC Computer
** 1956 - RAMAC
** 1956 - First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1)
** 1957-58 - First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker

* 1960s
** 1962 - Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program
** 1962-1967 - Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch
** 1962 - First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite
** 1962 - First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite
** 1962 - First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite
** 1963 - Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant
** 1964 - Mount Fuji Radar System
** 1964-1973 - Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators
** 1965 - First 735 kV AC Transmission System
** 1968 - CERN Experimental Instrumentation
** 1968 - Liquid Crystal Display
** 1969 - Electronic Quartz Wristwatch

* 1970s
** 1972 - Nelson River HVDC Transmission System
** 1976 - Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording
** 1977 - Lempel-Ziv Data Compression Algorithm

Joint designations
* 1907 - Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
* 1945 - Merrill Wheel-Balancing System
* 1893 - Mill Creek No. 1 Hydroelectric Plant
* 1963 - NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope
* 1929 - Shannon Scheme for the Electrification of the Irish Free State
* 1962 - Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
* 1964 - Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
* 1882 - Vulcan Street Plant

Special Citations
* Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), Electrical Poineer.

References

* [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/milestones_alpha.html#Joint IEEE History Center]