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.

Prior to 1800
- 1751 – Book Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin
- 1757–1775 – Benjamin Franklin's Work in London
- 1799 – Volta's Electrical Battery Invention

1800–1850
- 1836 – Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology
- 1828–1837 – Shilling'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 – First Central Station in South Carolina
- 1886 – Alternating Current Electrification (demonstrated by William Stanley, Jr.)
- 1887 – Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories
- 1888 – Richmond Union Passenger Railway
- 1889 – Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit

1890–1900
- 1891 – Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- 1893 – Mill Creek No. 1 Hydroelectric Plant
- 1895 – Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication
- 1895 – Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant
- 1895 – Marconi's Early Wireless Experiments
- 1897 – Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant
- 1898 – Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant
- 1898 – Early Developments in Remote-Control (demonstrated by Nikola Tesla)

1900–1920
- 1900 – Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant
- 1901 – Transmission of Transatlantic Radio Signals
- 1901 – Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals
- 1899–1902 – First Operational Use Of Wireless Telegraphy
- 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
- 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)
- 1924 – Directive Short Wave Antenna (Yagi-Uda antenna)
- 1924–1941 – Development of Electronic Television
- 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.

1930–1950
- 1930–1945 – Development of Ferrite Materials and Their Applications
- 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
- 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
- 1946 – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
- 1947 – Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
- 1948 - Birthplace of the Barcode

1950–1960
- 1950 – First External Cardiac Pacemaker
- 1951 – Manufacture of Transistors
- 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I
- 1946–1953 – Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television
- 1955 – WEIZAC Computer
- 1956 – RAMAC
- 1956 – The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1)
- 1957–1958 – First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker
- 1958 – First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC)
- 1959 – Semiconductor Planar Process and Integrated Circuit

1960–1970
- 1960–1984 – IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- 1961-1964 - First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier
- 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
- 1963 – NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope
- 1963 – First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite
- 1963 – Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant
- 1964 – Mount Fuji Radar System
- 1964 – Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
- 1965 – First 735 kV AC Transmission System
- 1962–1967 – Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch
- 1968 – Liquid Crystal Display
- 1968 – CERN Experimental Instrumentation
- 1969 – Birthplace of the Internet
- 1969 – Inception of the ARPANET
- 1950–1969 – Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches
- 1969 – Electronic Quartz Wristwatch

1970–present
- 1965–1971 – Railroad Ticketing Examining System (developed by OMRON of Japan)
- 1972 – Nelson River HVDC Transmission System
- 1964–1973 – Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators
- 1971–1978 – The First Word Processor for the Japanese Language
- 1972 – Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator
- 1976 – Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording
- 1977 – Lempel–Ziv Data Compression Algorithm
- 1978 – Speak & Spell, the First Use of a Digital Signal Processing IC for Speech Generation
- 1979 – Compact Disc Audio Player

Special citations
- Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) – Electrical Pioneer

References