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Dr. David Hochfelder, Associate Professor, State University of New York, Albany, is an historian of technology who has written on the history of the telegraph. I asked him to review the submission. He finds the proposed Milestone to be "clearly significant" technological achievement,  and that documentation provided to be in order, and supporting the claim.
Dr. David Hochfelder, Associate Professor, State University of New York, Albany, is an historian of technology who has written on the history of the telegraph. I asked him to review the submission. He finds the proposed Milestone to be "clearly significant" technological achievement,  and that documentation provided to be in order, and supporting the claim.
== Second Expert Evaluation of Salva Milestone Submission -- [[User:Vardalas|John Vardalas]] ([[User talk:Vardalas|talk]]) 04:28, 29 July 2018 (UTC) ==
At my request, Prof. Elias Fuste evaluated this proposal.  His reply is below.
"I completely agree with the merits described in the Milestone proposal submitted by the Spain Section of IEEE, about the Dr. Francisco Salvá I Campillo.
In my opinion, the greatest contribution of Dr. Francisco Salvà i Campillo to telecommunications, was to prove in a reliable way at the dawn of the nineteenth century, that electricity, that unknown and invisible new fluid, could be used to transmit signals remotely. Dr. Salvá i Campillo demonstrated it by building a telegraph that used Volta batteries to generate the electricity, batteries that he himself built. A pioneering work in electrical and telecommunications engineering.
To add something that I also think is significant:  Dr. Salvà i Campillo could be also considered as the constructor of the first telecommunications cable, since in his experiments with the electric telegraph, he grouped all the pairs of wires in a single bundle or string isolating each conductor by wrapping it in oil-greased paper. The German Museum of Science and Technology in Munich reflected this fact in a panel 20 years ago.
I believe that Dr. Salva i Campillo is a pioneer of electrical telecommunications and deserves to be registered with the IEEE Milestone distinction."
Prod. Antoni Elias Fusté, Universität Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech.

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Starting the approval process -- John Vardalas (talk) 19:38, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

I have been tasked with overseeing the examination of this Milestone proposal, and hopefully its final approval. As a starting point, I have asked three recommended experts, external to the History Committee, to assess this submission. When I have their results back I will post them on these discussion pages. Further discussions will then depend on the substance of the expert opinions.

John Vardalas, Ph.D. Member, IEEE History Committee

Comments from one external expert -- John Vardalas (talk) 00:09, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Dr. David Hochfelder, Associate Professor, State University of New York, Albany, is an historian of technology who has written on the history of the telegraph. I asked him to review the submission. He finds the proposed Milestone to be "clearly significant" technological achievement, and that documentation provided to be in order, and supporting the claim.

Second Expert Evaluation of Salva Milestone Submission -- John Vardalas (talk) 04:28, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

At my request, Prof. Elias Fuste evaluated this proposal. His reply is below.

"I completely agree with the merits described in the Milestone proposal submitted by the Spain Section of IEEE, about the Dr. Francisco Salvá I Campillo. In my opinion, the greatest contribution of Dr. Francisco Salvà i Campillo to telecommunications, was to prove in a reliable way at the dawn of the nineteenth century, that electricity, that unknown and invisible new fluid, could be used to transmit signals remotely. Dr. Salvá i Campillo demonstrated it by building a telegraph that used Volta batteries to generate the electricity, batteries that he himself built. A pioneering work in electrical and telecommunications engineering. To add something that I also think is significant: Dr. Salvà i Campillo could be also considered as the constructor of the first telecommunications cable, since in his experiments with the electric telegraph, he grouped all the pairs of wires in a single bundle or string isolating each conductor by wrapping it in oil-greased paper. The German Museum of Science and Technology in Munich reflected this fact in a panel 20 years ago.

I believe that Dr. Salva i Campillo is a pioneer of electrical telecommunications and deserves to be registered with the IEEE Milestone distinction." Prod. Antoni Elias Fusté, Universität Politecnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech.