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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
1886 Electric Automatic Dishwasher Josephine Cochrane Shelbyville, IL 3 US Patent #355139A
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 Also later invented portable xray machine
1912 Electric water purifier Ada Henry Van Pelt Los Angeles, CA 6 US Patent #1020001A
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
1919 First successful exhaust muffler for airplane engines Eldorado Jones Moline, IL 4 Is this an IEEE achievement?
1921 Graphical Calculator for power transmission computations Edith Clarke GE Laboratory, Schenectady, NY 1
1921 Microelectrode Ida Henrietta Hyde University of Kansas 5
1925 Miniature pH electrode Phyllis Margaret Tookey Kerridge London, UK 8
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 happening 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
1945 Sapphire gramophone stylus Marie Killick London, UK 8
1949 "Mechanical Encyclopedia" Ángela Ruiz Robles Galicia, Spain 8 Mechanical, but it is an information device
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.
1953 Hot die stamp method to create printed circuits Elise Frances Harmon Aerovox Corporation, New Bedford, MA 1 US Patent #2656570A
1954 Stored program control for telephone exchanges Erna Schneider Hoover Bell Labs, NJ 1
1959 Oramics drawn sound Daphne Oram Kent, UK 8
1960 Brain Research Institute Data Processing Laboratory Thelma Estrin Los Angeles 6
1966 First CCTV-based security system Marie Van Brittan Brown Queens, NYC 1 U.S. Patent 3,482,037
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 ?
1977 First microelectronic multi-channel cochlear implant Ingeborg J. Hochmair-Desoyer Vienna, Austria 8 With husband Erwin Hochmair
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, Maynard, MA 1 This is the basis of IEEE Standard 802.1d!
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
1988 Silicon retina Misha Mahowald CalTech 6
1989 Holographic video system Mary Lou Jepsen MIT Media Lab 1 Later co-invented "One Laptop per Child" $100 computer
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