List of IEEE Milestones

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This List of IEEE Milestones contains 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 - Volta's Electrical Battery Invention

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

1850-1989
- 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