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| | |Ultrasonics, Ferroelectics, and Frequency Control Society; Signal Processing Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Information Theory Society | ||
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Revision as of 19:54, 9 December 2019
A suggestive list of technical achievements in IEEE's fields of interest which might be suitable for proposal as milestones. The Region number where the achievement took place is shown. This is by no means all of them, nor does an appearance on this list guarantee approval. Please feel free to suggest others to ieee-history@ieee.org -- or even better -- propose an achievement as a milestone. Please consult the Milestone Guidelines for more information on the milestone process.
There is also a list according to regions of milestones which have already been dedicated.
Australian IEEE Members have created a list of important technological events in Australia some of which might also be appropriate for proposal.
Last updated: 10 October 2019
Date | Milestone | Associated person | Location | IEEE Region | Technical area/society |
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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 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1623 | Mechanical Calculator | Schichard | Tuebingen, Germany | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society |
1642 | Advanced Calculator | Pascal | Paris or Rouen, France | 8 | |
1671 | Reliable Calculator | Liebniz | Mainz, Germany | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1729 | Discovery of Conduction | Gray | London | 8 | |
1745 | "Leyden Jar" type Capacitator | Ewald G. von Kleist | Germany | 8 | |
1746 | Leyden Jar | Pieter van Musschenbroek and others, debatable precedence | Leyden, Netherlands, also Germany | 8 | Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Power and Energy Society |
1790 | Galvanism | Galvani | Bologna, Italy | 8 | |
1808 | Arc Lighting | Davy | England | 8 | |
1810 | Electrolytic Telegraph | Von Sommering | Munich, Germany | 8 | |
1819 | Discovery of Current/Magnetism | Oersted | Denmark | 8 | |
1822 | Fresnel Lens (lighthouses) and transverse wave theory of light | Augustin Fresnel | Gironde River, France | 8 | Power Electronics Society, Photonics Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
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 | |
1868 | Primary Dry Cell | Leclanche | France | 8 | |
1873 | DC Generator/lighthouses | Gramme | Belgium | 8 | Photonics Society, Power Electronics Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
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 | Photonics Society, Power Electronics Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1897 | Discovery of Electron | Thomson | Cambridge, England | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Power and Energy Society |
1899 | Loading Coil | Pupin | At&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 | Magnetics Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society |
1921 | Graphical Calculator for power transmission computations | Edith Clarke | Schenectady, NY, USA | 1 | Computer Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1923 | PNJ Interconnection | Numerous | Valley, Forge, PA, USA | 1 | Vehicular Technology Society, Intelligent Transportation Society |
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. & 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 | |
1948 | Atomic Clock/C-14 Dating | Libby | Chicago, IL, USA | 4 | Ultrasonics, Ferroelectics, and Frequency Control Society; Signal Processing Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Information Theory Society |
1948 | Experimental Cable TV | Numerous Inventors | Oregon, USA | 6 | Broadcast Technology Society, Communications Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Information Theory Society, Signal Processing Society, Society on Social Implications of Technology |
1948 | LP | Goldmark | CBS Laboratories, NewYork, USA | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Signal Processing Society |
1949 | Electric Guitar | Fender | Anaheim, CA, USA | 6 | |
1952 | Cinerama | Numerous | New York, USA | 1 | |
1952 | Compiler | Hopper | Eckert-Mauchly Co., Philadelphia, PA, USA | 1 | |
1952 | Magnetic Core Memory | Wang | Harvard University, | 1 | |
1952 | Univac I | Mauchley/Eckert | Philadelphia, pa, USA | 2 | |
1954 | Regency Portable Transistor | Radpies&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 | |
1957 | Alkaline battery | Lewis Urry | Eveready Lab, Cleveland, OH, 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 Light Emitting Diode | 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 | 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 | Viterbi | 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 | Solid State Circuits Society, Robotics and Automation Society, Power Electronics Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Computer Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1971 | Microprocessor | Hoff et al. | Silicon Valley, USA | 6 | Solid State Circuits Society, Robotics and Automation Society, Power Electronics Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Computer Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1972 | Cochlear Implant | Graeme/Clark | Australia | 10 | Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society; Signal Processing Society, Social Implications of Technology Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
1973 | Ethernet | Metcalfe | EtPaloAlto, CA, USA | 6 | Computer Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Professional Communication Society |
1974 | First PCs (Scelbi-8h Mark-8 A) | Numerous | Englewood, NJ, USA | 1 | |
1979 | Oracle Database | Ellison | Menlo Park, CA, USA | 6 | |
1979, 1980 | Rechargeable lithium-ion battery | Goodenough, Yazami, Yoshino | Oxford and Grenoble | 8 | |
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 | |
1990 | Daubechie wavelet (used for signal processing) | Ingrid Daubechie at Courant Institute | New York City, USA | 1 |