List of Achievements Suitable for Milestones featuring Women
From IEEE Milestones Wiki
Date | Milestone | Associated woman | Location | IEEE Region | Remarks |
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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, bu 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 |