View source for List of Achievements Suitable for Milestones

A suggestive list of technical achievements in IEEE's fields of interest which might be suitable for proposal as milestones.&nbsp;The Region number where the achievement took place&nbsp;is shown.&nbsp;This is by no means all of them, nor does an appearance on this list guarantee approval.&nbsp; Please feel free to&nbsp;suggest others to [mailto:ieee-history@ieee.org ieee-history@ieee.org] &nbsp;-- or even better -- [[Milestone Guidelines and How to Propose a Milestone|propose]] an achievement as a milestone.&nbsp; Please&nbsp;consult the '''[[Milestone Guidelines and How to Propose a Milestone|Milestone Guidelines]]&nbsp;'''for more information on the milestone process. There is also a [http://ethw.org/Milestones:List_of_Milestones_by_Region list according to regions] of milestones which have already been dedicated. 

Last updated: 7 March 2016

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! Date
! Milestone
! Associated person
! Location
! IEEE Region
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|4th Century Bce
|Description of Use of Magnetic Compass, (could Also Be 1040-44, Book ''collection of Most Important Military Techniques'', Kaifeng, Henan,china, Or 1117 First Written Mention of A Magnetic Compass For Maritime Navigation, Zhu Yu, Huanggang, Hubei, China) 
|Wang Xu
|Defeng County, Henan, China
|10
|-
|1617
|Napier's Bones
|Napier
|Edinburgh, Scotland
|8
|-
|1621
|Slide Rule
|Oughtred
|Albury, England
|8
|-
|1623
|Mechanical Calculator
|Schichard
|Tuebingen, Germany
|8
|-
|1642
|Advanced Calculator 
|Pascal
|Paris, France
|8
|-
|1671
|Reliable Calculator 
|Liebniz 
|Mainz, Germany
|8
|-
|1729
|Discovery of Conduction
|Gray
|London
|8
|-
|1746
|Leyden Jar
|Unknown
|Leyden, Netherlands
|8
|-
|1790
|Galvanism
|Galvani
|Bologna, Italy
|8
|-
|1808
|Arc Lighting 
|Davy 
|England
|8
|-
|1810
|Electrolytic Telegraph 
|Von Sommerin
|Munich, Germany
|8
|-
|1819
|Discovery of Current/Magnetism
|Oersted
|Denmark
|8
|-
|1824
|Electromagnet
|Sturgeon
|London, England
|8
|-
|1824
|Galvanometer
|Ampere
|Paris, France
|8
|-
|1824
|Thermocouple
|Seebech
|Berlin, Germany
|8
|-
|1828
|Electric Motor
|Henry
|Albany, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1828
|Ohm's Law/resistance
|Ohm
|Cologne, Germany
|8
|-
|1830
|Bimetallic Thermostat
|Ure
|Glasgow, Scotland
|8
|-
|1831
|Discovery of Induction
|Faraday
|London, England
|8
|-
|1833
|Difference Engine
|Babbage
|Cambridge, England
|8
|-
|1833
|Electric Telegraph Key
|Gauss/weber
|Goettingen, Germany
|8
|-
|1834
|Early Electric Light 
|Lindsay
|Dundee, Scotland
|8
|-
|1836
|Electric Telegraph
|Cooke & Wheatsone
|London, England
|8
|-
|1837
|Analytical Engine
|Babbage
|London, England
|8
|-
|1837
|Practical Electric Motor
|Davenport
|Rutland, VT, USA
|1
|-
|1840
|Electroplating 
|Wright
|Birmingham, England
|8
|-
|1840
|First program
|Ada Augusta
|London, England
|8
|-
|1844
|Washington-Baltimore Telegraph
|Morse
|Maryland, USA
|2
|-
|1850
|Kirchoff's Laws 
|Kirchoff
|Koenigsberg, Germany
|8
|-
|1854
|Electric Loom 
|Bonelli
|Turin, Italy
|8
|-
|1854
|Printing Telegraph 
|Hughes 
|Kentucky, USA
|3
|-
|1856
|Shuttle-wound Armature 
|Von Siemens 
|Berlin, Germany
|8
|-
|1859
|Discovery of Cathode Rays 
|Pluker 
|Bonn, Germany
|8
|-
|1859
|Storage Battery
|Plante
|France
|8
|-
|1860
|Arc Welding 
|Wilde
|London
|8
|-
|1863
|Early Generator
|Paccinotti
|Italy
|8
|-
|1868
|Primary Dry Cell
|Leclanche
|France
|8
|-
|1873
|DC Generator/lighthouses
|Gramme
|Belgium
|8
|-
|1874
|Early Electric Car
|Salomans
|Kent, England
|8
|-
|1875
|Electric Dental Drill
|Green
|Kalamazoo, MI, USA
|4
|-
|1877
|Dynamic Microphone
|Curtis/Reddi
|Boston
|1
|-
|1877
|Dynamic Microphone
|Siemens
|Germany
|8
|-
|1877
|Resistance Welding
|Thompson
|Philadelphia, Pa, USA
|2
|-
|1877
|Telephone Switchboard
|Holmes
|Boston, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1878
|Alternator
|Gramme/Fonta
|France
|8
|-
|1878
|Alternator
|Siemens
|Germany
|8
|-
|1879
|Commercial Use of Arc-lighting
|Brush
|Cleveland, Oh, USA
|2
|-
|1880
|Contributions of Lewis Latimer
|Latimer
|New York
|1
|-
|1880
|Early Hydroelectric Site
|Numerous
|Grand Rapids, MI, USA
|4
|-
|1880
|First Electrically Lit Town
|Numerous
|Wabash, Indiana
|4
|-
|1881
|Commercial Music Over Wire
|Cahill
|Holyoke, Mass., USA
|1
|-
|1881
|Solar-powered Pump
|Adams
|Bombay, India
|10
|-
|1881
|Transformer
|Gaulard/Gibb
|Paris, France
|8
|-
|1882
|Elektromote Trackless Car
|Von Siemens
|Halensee, Germany
|8
|-
|1882
|Commercial Electric Fan
|Crocker/Curt
|New York, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1882
|Early Hydroelectric Site
|Brush
|Minneapolis, MN, USA
|4
|-
|1882
|Early Hydroelectric Site
|Calder/Barre
|Surrey, England
|8
|-
|1882
|Electric Iron 
|Seely
|New York, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1882
|Electric Mine Railway
|Von Siemens
|Saxony, Germany
|8
|-
|1885
|Magnetic Circuit Theory
|Hopkinson
|London, England
|8
|-
|1885
|Mass Production of Edison Lamps
|Thomson
|Lynn, Ma
|1
|-
|1886
|Bayonet Cap Light Bulb
|Swan
|Newcastle-on-Tyne, England
|8
|-
|1886
|Electric Heater
|Burton
|Richmond, VA, USA
|3
|-
|1886
|Electric Submarine
|Peral
|Spain
|8
|-
|1886
|Electrolytic Reduction of Aluminium
|Hall
|Oberlin, OH, USA
|2
|-
|1886
|Electrolytic Reduction of Aluminium
|Herault
|Paris, France
|8
|-
|1886
|First Electric Trolley System
|Numerous people
|Montgomery, AL, USA
|3
|-
|1887
|Electric Elevator
|Von Siemens
|Mannheim, Germany
|8
|-
|1888
|AC Induction Motor
|Tesla
|New York 
|1
|-
|1888
|AC Induction Motor
|Ferraris
|Turin, Italy
|8
|-
|1889
|Automatic Telephone Exchange
|Strowger
|Kansas City, MO, USA
|4
|-
|1889
|Marmelos Zero Hydro Plant
|Numerous
|Minas Gerais, Brazil
|9
|-
|1890
|Electric Motor Car
|Morrison
|Des Moines, Iowa
|4
|-
|1890
|High-frequency Generator
|Thomson
|Chicago, USA
|4
|-
|1890
|Long-distance AC Transmission
|Numerous Inventors
|Williamette Falls, Or
|6
|-
|1890
|Punched-card Machine
|Holerith
|Washington, DC, USA
|2
|-
|1892
|Lorentz Paper On The Electron
|Lorentz
|Benelux section
|8
|-
|1893
|Coney Island Electric Escalator
|Reno
|Brooklyn, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1895
|X-rays
|Roentgen
|Wuerzburg, Germany
|8
|-
|1897
|CRT
|Braun
|Strausbourg, Germany
|8
|-
|1897
|Discovery of Electron
|Thomson
|Cambridge, England
|8
|-
|1899
|Loading Coil
|Pupin
|At&amp;t, 
|1
|-
|1899
|Magnetic Recording
|Poulsen
|Denmark
|8
|-
|1901
|Electric Typewriter
|Cahill
|Washington, DC, USA
|2
|-
|1901
|Mercury Discharge Lamp
|Cooper
|Hewit, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1902
|Early Broadcast
|Stubblefield
|Murphy, KY, USA
|3
|-
|1902
|Oscilloscope
|Ryan
|Ithaca, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1902
|George Darby's Patent For Electrical Heat And Smoke Detector
|Birmingham
|England 
|8
|-
|1904
|Transposition of AC lines
|Frank Fowle
|New York, NY
|1
|-
|1906
|Crystal Detector
|Dunwoody/Pic
|Washington, DC, USA
|2
|-
|1906
|Crystal Detector
|Braun
|Germany
|8
|-
|1906
|Sound Film
|Lauste
|Brixton, England
|8
|-
|1906
|Telephone Amplifier Tube
|Von Lieben
|Vienna, Austria
|8
|-
|1906
|Triode
|DeForrest
|US
|1
|-
|1906
|Electromagnetic Seismograph
|Dorpat
|Estonia or St. Petersburg, Russia
|8
|-
|1907
|Cinema Projection System
|Bell and Howell
|USA
|4
|-
|1907
|Upright Vacuum Cleaner
|Spangler
|New Berlin, OH, USA
|2
|-
|1910
|Ni-Cd Battery
|Jungner
|Sweden 
|8
|-
|1910
|Radio Direction Finder
|Bellini/Tosiboulogne
|France 
|8
|-
|1910
|Tungsten Filament
|Coolidge
|Us
|1
|-
|1911
|Automobile Self Starter
|Kettering
|Dayton, OH, USA
|2
|-
|1914
|Electric Traffic Light
|Benesch
|Cleveland, OH, USA
|2
|-
|1915
|1st Transcontinental Telephone
|Bell and Watson
|San Francisco
|6
|-
|1915
|2nd Transcontinental Telephone
|Bell and Watson
|Washington, DC, USA
|3
|-
|1916
|Radio Telephone
|Numerous
|Arlington, Virginia
|2
|-
|1916
|Radio Telephone
|Numerous
|San Francisco
|6
|-
|1917
|Superheterodyne
|Armstrong
|Columbia University, New York City
|1
|-
|1917
|Superheterodyne
|Levy
|France
|8
|-
|1917
|VHF
|Marconi
|Wales
|8
|-
|1918
|Electric Refrigerator
|Wales Et Al.
|Detroit, USA
|4
|-
|1918
|Practical AC Clock
|Warren
|Ashland, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1919
|Neutrodyne Hazeltine
|Hoboken
|NJ, USA
|1
|-
|1919
|Permanent Electrostatic Fields
|Eguchi
|Japan
|10
|-
|1921
|Magnetron Hall
|Schenectady
|NY, USA
|1
|-
|1923
|PNJ Interconnection
|Numerous
|Valley, Forge, PA, USA
|1
|-
|1924
|Stereo Phonography
|Keller
|Bell Labs
|1
|-
|1925
|Cinemascope
|Chretien
|France
|8
|-
|1925
|Electrodynamic Loudspeaker
|Numerous
|Schenectady, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1925
|Quartz Crystal Watch
|Numerous
|New York
|1
|-
|1926
|All-electric Gramaphone
|Brunswick
|Chicago, USA
|4
|-
|1926
|Mechanical TV/1st TV License
|Baird
|London, England
|8
|-
|1926
|South Africa Lightning Research
|Numerous
|Capetown, South Africa
|8
|-
|1927
|1st Commercial Movie with Sound (Talkie) The Jazz Singer
|Numerous Inventors
|Hollywood, USA
|6
|-
|1927
|All-electric Juke Box
|Harrison
|WestChicago, USA
|4
|-
|1927
|Differential Analyzer
|Bush
|Cambridge, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1927
|Negative Feedback Amp
|Black
|Bell Labs
|1
|-
|1927
|Pentode
|Holst/Tellegen
|Eindhoven, Netherlands
|8
|-
|1927
|Pop-up Toaster
|Strite
|Stillwater, MN, USA
|4
|-
|1927
|Technicolor
|Kalmusetal
|Cambridge, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1928
|All-electronic TV
|Farnsworth
|USA
|6
|-
|1928
|Geiger Tube
|Geiger/Mulletuebingen
|Germany
|8
|-
|1929
|Coaxial Cable
|Numerous
|New York, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1929
|Electro-encephalogram
|Berger
|Jena, Germany
|8
|-
|1929
|Electron Microscope
|Knoll/Ruska
|Berlin, Germany
|8
|-
|1929
|Recording Tape
|Pfleumer
|Austria, 
|8
|-
|1930
|Fm
|Armstrong
|Columbia University, New York City
|1
|-
|1931
|Commercial Electric Guitar
|Rickenbacker
|Los Angeles, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1931
|Crystal Microphone 
|Sawyer
|Cleveland Hts., OH, USA
|2
|-
|1931
|Electric Razor
|Schick
|Stamford, CT, USA
|1
|-
|1931
|Iconoscope
|Zworykin
|Pittsburgh, PA, USA
|2
|-
|1932
|TVA
|Numerous
|Muscle Shoals, AL
|3
|-
|1933
|Wind Turbine Connected To Grid
|Balaclava
|Ukraine
|8
|-
|1934
|Tone Wheel Electric Organ Hammond/Hane
|Chicago
|IL, USA
|4
|-
|1934
|Diesel-electric Traction
|Kettering
|Cleveland, OH, USA
|2
|-
|1934
|Radio Beam Aerial Navigation
|Plendl
|Rechlin, Germany
|8
|-
|1935
|Early Radar
|Watson-Watt
|London, England
|8
|-
|1935
|IBM Mass-prod. Electric Typewriter
|numerous
|Endicott, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1936
|AEG magnetophone Rec. &amp; Tape
|Numerous
|Berlin, Germany
|8
|-
|1936
|Boulder Dam
|Numerous
|Boulder City, NV, USA
|6
|-
|1938
|Klystron
|Varian brothers
|Silicon Valley, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1938
|Xerography
|Carlson
|New York, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1939
|1st Electronic-digital Computerat
|Anasoff/Beames
|IA, USA
|4
|-
|194?
|Magnetic Resonance Imaging
|Felix Bloch, Edward Purcell
|Stanford and Harvard, USA
|1
|-
|1941
|Honeywell Electronic Autopilot 
|Numerous 
|Minneapolis, MN, USA
|4
|-
|1941
|Grandpa's Knob Wind Turbine
|Putnam
|Grandpa's Knob, VT
|1
|-
|1943
|IBM Mark I
|Numerous
|Endicott, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1943
|Special-purpose Electronic Computer (colossus)
|Newman/Flowers
|Buckinghamshire, England
|8
|-
|1946
|Project Diana (ASC Electronics)
|Numerous Inventors
|Wall, NJ, USA
|1
|-
|1948
|Atomic Clock/C-14 Dating
|Libby
|Chicago, IL, USA
|4
|-
|1948
|Experimental Cable TV
|Numerous Inventors
|Oregon, USA
|6
|-
|1948
|LP
|Goldmark
|CBS Laboratories, NewYork, USA
|1
|-
|1949
|Electric Guitar Fender
|Anaheim
|CA, USA
|6
|-
|1952
|Cinerama
|Numerous
|New York, USA
|1
|-
|1952
|Compiler
|Hopper
|Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1952
|Magnetic Core Memory
|Wang
|Harvard University, 
|1
|-
|1952
|Univac I
|Mauchley/Eckert
|Philadelphia, pa, USA
|2
|-
|1954
|Regency Portable Transistor
|Radpies&amp;Koch
|Indianapolis, In, USA
|4
|-
|1956
|Commercial Nuclear Power Generation
|Shippingport
|PA, USA
|2
|-
|1956
|Fortran Programming Language
|Backus
|New York, 
|1
|-
|1956
|IBM Comm. Magnetic Memory Core
|Numerous
|SanJose, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1956
|Atomichron
|National Co. Inc
|Melrose, Massachusetts, USA
|1
|-
|1956
|Flight Data Recorder ("black Box")                                         
|Ryan
|University of Minnesota, MN, USA
|4
|-
|1957
|Defibrillator and cardiopulmonary resuscitation
|Kouwenhoven/Knickerbocker/Jude/Safars
|Johns Hopkins U., Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
|2
|-
|1958
|TI Silicon Junction Transistor
|Teal
|TI, Dallas, TX, USA
|5
|-
|1958
|Van Allen Belts
|Van Allen
|Ames, IA, USA
|4
|-
|1959
|Point-to-point Microwave Radio
|Numerous
|Vancouver, Canada
|7
|-
|1959
|Texaco/TR Computer-Controlled
|Numerous
|Port Arthur, Tx, USA
|5
|-
|1959
|Tunnel Diode
|Esaki
|Tokyo, Japan
|10
|-
|1960
|COBOL
|Numerous
|Washington, DC, USA
|2
|-
|1962
|GE LED
|Numerous
|Syracuse, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1962
|Implantable Pacemaker
|Greatbach
|Clarence, NewYork
|1
|-
|1962
|Unimation Industrial Robot
|Numerous
|Danbury, Ma, USA
|1
|-
|1962
|Space War: 1st Computer Game
|Russell/Graetz/Wiitanen
|Brand, Stanford University, USA
|6
|-
|1963
|Langmuir Lab
|Numerous
|New Mexico
|6
|-
|1963
|Instant replay
|Tony Verna
|Philadelphia
|2
|-
|1964
|Basic
|Kurtz
|Hanover, NH, USA
|1
|-
|1964
|IBM 360
|Numerous
|Endicott, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1964
|Laser Holography
|Numerous Inventors
|Ann Arbor, MI, USA
|4
|-
|1964
|Voltage-controlled Music Synth
|Moog
|Trumansburg, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1965
|PDP-8
|Numerous
|Boston, MA, USA
|1
|-
|1965
|Affordable Home Smoke Detector
|Lakewood
|Colorado, USA
|5
|-
|1967
|Dolby Sound
|Dolby
|London, England
|1
|-
|1967
|Viterbi Algorithm
|California
|USA
|6
|-
|197?
|Computer Assisted Tomography (CAT) scans
|Allan Cormack and Godfrey Hounsfeld
|England
|8
|-
|1970
|Pascal
|Wirth
|Zurich, Switzerland
|8
|-
|1970
|Codd's Relational Database Paper
|Codd
|San Jose, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1971
|Intel 4004
|Grove et al.
|Silicon Valley, USA
|6
|-
|1971
|Microprocessor
|Hoff et al.
|Silicon Valley, USA
|6
|-
|1972
|Cochlear Implant
|Graeme/Clark
|Australia
|10
|-
|1972
|Xerox Alto
|Palo Alto
|CA, USA
|6
|-
|1973
|Ethernet
|Metcalfe
|EtPaloAlto, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1974
|First PCs (Scelbi-8h
|Mark-8
|A), Numerous, Englewood, NJ, USA
|1
|-
|1979
|Oracle Database
|Ellison
|Menlo Park, CA, USA
|6
|-
|1980
|Mandelbrot article on fractals
|Mandlebrot
|Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
|1
|-
|1981
|Scanning Tunneling Microscope
|IBM Labs
|Zurich, Switzerland
|8
|-
|1982
|Sun 1
|Palo Alto
|CA, USA
|6
|}