List of Achievements Suitable for Milestones featuring Women

Date	Milestone	Associated woman	Location	IEEE Region	Remarks
1748	Publication of Analytical Institutions	Maria Agnesi	Italy	8
1840	Theoretical computer programming	Ada Augusta	London, England	8
1881	First meeting of American Association of University Women	Ellen Swallow Richards	Boston, MA	1
1893	First woman to earn degree in EE	Bertha Lamme	Ohio State University	2
1895	Explanation of electric arc	Hertha Ayrton	London, UK	8	Also first woman to read a paper before the Royal Society; first woman member of the IEE (2nd was in 1958); first woman to win Hughes Medal (2nd was in 2018, and only two to date; first paper was in The Electrician; published her book in 1902
1898	Development of theory of radioactivity	Marie Skłodowska Curie	Paris, France	8
1913	All-metal poultry-cooling rack	Mary Engle Pennington	Pennsylvania	2
1919	First Women's Engineering Society Meeting	Laura Annie Willson, Rachel Parsons, Margaret, Lady Moir	Hertfordshire, UK	8
1921	Graphical Calculator for power transmission computations	Edith Clarke	GE Laboratory, Schenectady, NY	1
1935	Non-reflective coating for glass	Katherine Burr Blodgett	GE Laboratory, Schenectady, NY	1	Is this an IEEE event? She was a chemist, but it had electronic applications; also what was happeneing at GE in 1930s that Clarke and Blodgett were both there?
1936	Discovery of ring nebulae in Milky Way	Muriel Mussells Seyfert	Harvard	1
1942	Frequency hopping	Hedy Lamarr	California?	6
1950	First SWE Meeting	Beatrice Hicks	Cooper Union's Green Engineering Camp	1
1952	Computer compiler	Grace Hopper	Philadelphia, PA	2	Philadelphia Section working on this. Site location for the plaque is a question.
1959	Oramics drawn sound	Daphne Oram	Kent, UK	8
1960	Brain Research Institute Data Processing Laboratory	Thelma Estrin	Los Angeles	6
1966	Gigacycle signal generator	Betsy Ancker-Johnson	Boeing Science Research Lab, Seattle, WA	6	U.S. Patent #3,287,659
1967	Hydrazine resistojet satellite propulsion system	Yvonne Brill	RCA Lab, Princeton, NJ	1	Is this an IEEE achievement? She was a chemist, but important for satellites
1968	Switched-On Bach	Wendy Carlos	New York	1
1969	Apollo flight software	Margaret Hamilton	Cambridge, MA	1
1969	Publication of Computer Science: A First Course	Alexandra Illmer Forsythe	New York	1
1970	Contributions to radio science in the polar regions	Irene Peden	Antarctica	?
1978	General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory	Ruzena Bajcsy	University of Pennsylvania	2
1980	Graphical adventure games	Roberta Williams	Simi Valley, CA	6
1980	VLSI	Lynn Conway	Xerox PARC	6
1985	Spanning Tree Protocol	Radia Perlman	DEC	1
1986	Daubechies Wavelets	Ingrid Daubechies	New York	1
1986	Music Mouse composition software	Laurie Spiegel	New York	1
1986	Precise modelling of Earth's shape	Gladys West	Dahlgren, VA	2
1992	Prediction of band structures of carbon nanotubes	Mildred Dresselhaus	MIT	1
1992	Semiconductor saturable absorber mirror	Ursula Keller	Switzerland	8
1995	Rescue and Disaster Recovery Robots	Robin Murphy	Colorado School of Mines, Univ S. Florida	5