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. 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 | Magnetics Society, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
1617 | Napier's Bones | Napier | Edinburgh, Scotland | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society |
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 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society |
1671 | Reliable Calculator | Liebniz | Mainz, Germany | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1729 | Discovery of Conduction | Gray | London | 8 | Circuits and Systems Society, Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Electron Devices Society |
1745 | "Leyden Jar" type Capacitator | Ewald G. von Kleist | Germany | 8 | Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Power and Energy Society, Electron Devices Society |
1746 | Leyden Jar | Pieter van Musschenbroek and others, debatable precedence | Leyden, Netherlands, also Germany | 8 | Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Power and Energy Society, Electron Devices Society |
1790 | Galvanism | Galvani | Bologna, Italy | 8 | Power and Energy Society, Electron Devices Society |
1808 | Arc Lighting | Davy | England | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Power and Energy Society |
1810 | Electrolytic Telegraph | Von Sommering | Munich, Germany | 8 | Signal Processing Society, Professional Communication Society, Information Theory Society, Broadcast Technology Society |
1819 | Discovery of Current/Magnetism | Oersted | Denmark | 8 | Magnetics Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Electron Devices Society |
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 | Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Magnetics Society, Circuits and Systems Society, Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society |
1824 | Galvanometer | Ampere | Paris, France | 8 | Circuits and Systems Society, Electron Devices Society |
1824 | Thermocouple | Seebech | Berlin, Germany | 8 | Circuits and Systems Society, Electron Devices Society, Power Electronics Society |
1828 | Electric Motor | Henry | Albany, NY, USA | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Magnetics Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
1828 | Ohm's Law/resistance | Ohm | Cologne, Germany | 8 | |
1830 | Bimetallic Thermostat | Ure | Glasgow, Scotland | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1831 | Discovery of Induction | Faraday | London, England | 8 | Magnetics Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Power Electronics Society |
1833 | Difference Engine | Babbage | Cambridge, England | 8 | Power Electronics Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society |
1833 | Electric Telegraph Key | Gauss/weber | Goettingen, Germany | 8 | Professional Communication Society, Information Theory Society, Power Electronics Society |
1834 | Early Electric Light | Lindsay | Dundee, Scotland | 8 | Power Electronics Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1836 | Electric Telegraph | Cooke & Wheatsone | London, England | 8 | Professional Communication Society, Information Theory Society, Power Electronics Society |
1837 | Analytical Engine | Babbage | London, England | 8 | Computer Society, Instrumentation and Measurement Society |
1837 | Practical Electric Motor | Davenport | Rutland, VT, USA | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Magnetics Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Vehicular Technology |
1840 | Electroplating | Wright | Birmingham, England | 8 | Circuits and Systems Society, Electron Devices Society |
1840 | First program | Ada Augusta | London, England | 8 | Computer Society, Power Electronics Society |
1844 | Washington-Baltimore Telegraph | Morse | Maryland, USA | 2 | Information Theory Society, Power Electronics Society, Professional Communication Society |
1850 | Kirchoff's Laws | Kirchoff | Koenigsberg, Germany | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Power Electronics Society |
1854 | Electric Loom | Bonelli | Turin, Italy | 8 | Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1854 | Printing Telegraph | Hughes | Kentucky, USA | 3 | Professional Communications Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1856 | Shuttle-wound Armature | Von Siemens | Berlin, Germany | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Power Electronics Society |
1859 | Discovery of Cathode Rays | Pluker | Bonn, Germany | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1859 | Storage Battery | Plante | France | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1860 | Arc Welding | Wilde | London | 8 | Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
1868 | Primary Dry Cell | Leclanche | France | 8 | Electron Devices Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1873 | DC Generator/lighthouses | Gramme | Belgium | 8 | Photonics Society, Power Electronics Society, Vehicular Technology Society |
1874 | Early Electric Car | Salomans | Kent, England | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Power Electronics Society, Intelligent Transportation Society |
1875 | Electric Dental Drill | Green | Kalamazoo, MI, USA | 4 | Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1877 | Dynamic Microphone | Curtis/Reddi | Boston | 1 | Professional Communication Society, Power Electronics Society |
1877 | Dynamic Microphone | Siemens | Germany | 8 | Professional Communication Society, Power Electronics Society |
1877 | Resistance Welding | Thompson | Philadelphia, Pa, USA | 2 | Vehicular Technology Society, Power Electronics Society |
1877 | Telephone Switchboard | Holmes | Boston, MA, USA | 1 | Professional Communications Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1878 | Alternator | Gramme/Fonta | France | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Electron Devices Society, Power and Energy Society |
1878 | Alternator | Siemens | Germany | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Electron Devices Society, Power and Energy Society |
1879 | Commercial Use of Arc-lighting | Brush | Cleveland, Oh, USA | 2 | Consumer Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1880 | Contributions of Lewis Latimer | Latimer | New York | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1880 | Early Hydroelectric Site | Numerous | Grand Rapids, MI, USA | 4 | Industrial Electronics Society, Power and Energy Society, Magetics Society |
1880 | First Electrically Lit Town | Numerous | Wabash, Indiana | 4 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power and Energy Society, Power Electronics Society |
1881 | Commercial Music Over Wire | Cahill | Holyoke, Mass., USA | 1 | Professional Communication Society, Broadcast Technology Society, Signal Processing Society |
1881 | Solar-powered Pump | Adams | Bombay, India | 10 | Power and Energy Society, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society |
1881 | Transformer | Gaulard/Gibb | Paris, France | 8 | Power and Energy Society, Electron Devices Society, Industrial Electronics Societey |
1882 | Elektromote Trackless Car | Von Siemens | Halensee, Germany | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1882 | Commercial Electric Fan | Crocker/Curt | New York, NY, USA | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1882 | Early Hydroelectric Site | Brush | Minneapolis, MN, USA | 4 | Power Electronics Society, Magnetics Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1882 | Early Hydroelectric Site | Calder/Barre | Surrey, England | 8 | Power Electronics Society, Magnetics Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1882 | Electric Iron | Seely | New York, NY, USA | 1 | Power Electronics Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1882 | Electric Mine Railway | Von Siemens | Saxony, Germany | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1885 | Magnetic Circuit Theory | Hopkinson | London, England | 8 | Magnetics Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1885 | Mass Production of Edison Lamps | Thomson | Lynn, Ma | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1886 | Bayonet Cap Light Bulb | Swan | Newcastle-on-Tyne, England | 8 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1886 | Electric Heater | Burton | Richmond, VA, USA | 3 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1886 | Electric Submarine | Peral | Spain | 8 | Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Power Electronics Society, Oceanic Engineering Society, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society |
1886 | Electrolytic Reduction of Aluminium | Hall | Oberlin, OH, USA | 2 | Electron Devices Society |
1886 | Electrolytic Reduction of Aluminium | Herault | Paris, France | 8 | Electron Devices Society |
1886 | First Electric Trolley System | Numerous people | Montgomery, AL, USA | 3 | Vehicular Technology Society, Intelligent Transportation Systems Society |
1887 | Electric Elevator | Von Siemens | Mannheim, Germany | 8 | Power Electronics Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1888 | AC Induction Motor | Tesla | New York | 1 | Vehicular Technology Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1888 | AC Induction Motor | Ferraris | Turin, Italy | 8 | Vehicular Technology Society, Industrial Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1889 | Automatic Telephone Exchange | Strowger | Kansas City, MO, USA | 4 | Professional Communication Society, Consumer Electronic Society, Signal Processing Society |
1889 | Marmelos Zero Hydro Plant | Numerous | Minas Gerais, Brazil | 9 | Power and Energy Society, Industrial Electronics Society |
1890 | Electric Motor Car | Morrison | Des Moines, Iowa | 4 | Vehicular Technology Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1890 | High-frequency Generator | Thomson | Chicago, USA | 4 | Power and Energy Society, Magnetics Society |
1890 | Long-distance AC Transmission | Numerous Inventors | Williamette Falls, Or | 6 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power and Energy Society |
1890 | Punched-card Machine | Holerith | Washington, DC, USA | 2 | Computer Society, Power Electronics Society, Computational Intelligence Society |
1892 | Lorentz Paper On The Electron | Lorentz | Benelux section | 8 | Electron Devices Society |
1893 | Coney Island Electric Escalator | Reno | Brooklyn, NY, USA | 1 | Power Electronics Society, Consumer Electronics Society |
1895 | X-rays | Roentgen | Wuerzburg, Germany | 8 | Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society |
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 | Power and Energy Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1899 | Magnetic Recording | Poulsen | Denmark | 8 | Magnetics Society, Signal Processing Society |
1901 | Electric Typewriter | Cahill | Washington, DC, USA | 2 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1901 | Mercury Discharge Lamp | Cooper | Hewit, NY, USA | 1 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1902 | Early Broadcast | Stubblefield | Murphy, KY, USA | 3 | Broadcast Technology Society, Antennas and Propagation Society |
1902 | Oscilloscope | Ryan | Ithaca, NY, USA | 1 | Electron Devices Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
1902 | George Darby's Patent For Electrical Heat And Smoke Detector | Birmingham | England | 8 | Consumer Electronics Society, Power Electronics Society |
1904 | Transposition of AC lines | Frank Fowle | New York, NY | 1 | Power and Energy Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1906 | Crystal Detector | Dunwoody/Pic | Washington, DC, USA | 2 | Broadcast Technology Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
1906 | Crystal Detector | Braun | Germany | 8 | Broadcast Technology Society, Consumer Electronics Society, Circuits and Systems Society |
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 |