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List of IEEE Milestones
[edit]The following list of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) milestones represents key historical achievements in electrical and electronic engineering.[1]
Prior to 1870
[edit]- 1745–1746 – Leyden jar capacitor by Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek
- 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
- 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
- 1852 – Electric Fire alarm system
- 1857 – Heinrich Geissler discovered the first gas discharge tubes in the world, a predecessor of today's neon lighting – Geissler tube
- 1861–1870 – Maxwell's equations
- 1861 – Transcontinental Telegraph
- 1866 – Landing of the Transatlantic Cable
- 1866 – County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations
1871–1890
[edit]- 1876 – First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire
- 1876 – First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada
- 1876 – Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park
- 1878 – Ganz Company starts working with single-phase AC power systems in Budapest, Austro-Hungary
- 1882 – Vulcan Street Plant
- 1882 – Pearl Street Station
- 1882 – First Central Station in South Carolina
- 1883 – Gaulard–Gibbs AC distribution system was published in Great Britain
- 1884 – First AIEE Technical Meeting
- 1884 – First AC power transmission system (Gaulard–Gibbs) in the world from Lanzo to Turino, Italy
- 1885 – ZBD system AC transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri
- 1885 – Galileo Ferraris conceives the idea of the first polyphase AC motor
- 1885 – Elihu Thomson at Thomson-Houston started the first company in the USA to work on AC
- 1886 – Buffalo, New York, receives the USA's first commercial AC power system designed by George Westinghouse, William Stanley, and Oliver B. Shallenberger.
- 1886 – Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the first full (community) AC power system in the world demonstrated by William Stanley, Jr.
- 1886 – First Generation and Experimental Proof of Electromagnetic Waves
- 1887 – Charles S. Bradley builds the first AC 3-phase generator in the US
- 1887 – Friedrich August Haselwander builds the first AC 3-phase generator in Europe
- 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 – Discovery of Radioconduction with a Coherer by Édouard Branly
- 1890 – Keage Power Station, Japan's First Commercial Hydroelectric Plant
- 1890 - City and South London Railway opens the first electric underground rail system[2]
1891–1900
[edit]- 1891 – Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- 1891 – First three-phase AC hydropower plant in the world, Lauffen am Neckar, Frankfurt, Germany
- 1891 – International Electrotechnical Exhibition powered 3-phase from Lauffen am Neckar 175 km away
- 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 – Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant
1901–1920
[edit]- 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 Fessenden
- 1906 – Grand Central Terminal Electrification
- 1907 – Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
- 1909 – Shoshone Transmission Line
- 1911 – Discovery of superconductivity
- 1914 – Panama Canal Electrical and Control Installations
- 1920 – Westinghouse Radio Station KDKA (AM)
- 1920 – Funkerberg Königs Wusterhausen first radio broadcast in Germany
1921–1930
[edit]- 1924 – Directive shortwave 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
1931–1950
[edit]- 1931–1945 – 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
- 1938 – Zenit Parabolic Reflector L-Band Pulsed Radar
- 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 – First External Cardiac Pacemaker
1951–1960
[edit]- 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
1961–1970
[edit]- 1961–1984 – 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.[3]
- 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 at Centre Electronique Horloger, Switzerland
- 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 actions[4]
- 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 – First commercially available Electronic Quartz Wristwatch
- 1970 – SPICE Circuit Simulation Program
1971–1999
[edit]- 1971–1978 – JW-10 (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
References
[edit]- ^ List of IEEE Milestones
- ^ Magdalena Dugdale, World’s oldest metro systems, 2019, railway-technology.com
- ^ 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.
External links
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