Property:Milestone Site Description
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Description of the site where the a milestone plaque would be installed. This property has the type text
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-Intended plaque sites of GS Yuasa Corporation:
(1) GS Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto Head Office: Entrance Hall on the ground floor.
(2) GS Yuasa International Ltd., Tokyo Head Office: Entrance Hall on the ground floor.
(3) GS Yuasa International Ltd., Kyoto Head Office, Global Technical Head Quarters: Entrance Hall on the ground floor.
-Intended plaque sites of Panasonic Corporation:
(1) Panasonic Corporation, Automotive & Industrial Systems Company Head Office: Entrance Hall on the ground floor.
(2) Panasonic Corporation, Energy Device Business Division Head Office: Entrance Hall on the ground floor.
(3) Panasonic Corporation, Portable Rechargeable Battery Business Group Head Office: Entrance Hall on the ground floor. +
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1) Milestone plaque:
The milestone plaque will reside in the Suzukake-dai campus of Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8501 Japan.
2) Milestone replica plaque:
The replica plaque will be displayed in the Institute Museum at O-okayama Campus,Tokyo Institute of Technology. +
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1) Place were Czochralski developed the technology
2) Place were Czochralski invented the technology
3) Place where Czochralski was born and buried +
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1. The site is in the headquarter campus of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
2. The site is in the campus of Nobeyama Radio Observatory where the 45-m telescope was built, and it is used today. It is owned by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. +
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22 Frith Street London W1D 4RF
The building is now occupied on the ground floor by a restaurant and bar. The first floor was used by Baird as a workshop during the period 1923-1926, for various experimental activities, including the development of his television system.
The current owner, Mr Antonio Polledri runs a family business there that has existed since 1948, in central London. Public viewing of a plaque erected on the front wall is assured in perpetuity. +
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Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) with error correction for wireless networks, 1992 +
26 Pembroke Road Marsfield NSW 2122 Australia - On the white wall by the CSIRO logo at the building's street entrance +
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3 brick columns support the letters of "PIXAR" at the entry to the HQ of Pixar Animation Studios, and this plaque will be mounted on the rightmost of these 3 columns. Access is 24/7. +
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4 Irving Place, New York, NY
In the lobby of the Con Edison building, under an existing bust of Thomas Edison. +
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<br/><br/>Soda Hall on U.C. Berkeley campus has housed the Computer Science Department since 1996. Prior to that, Computer Science shared Evans Hall with Mathematics and other departments.<br/><br/>During spring break 1978, Prof. William Kahan of the Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering Departments, visiting Prof. Harold Stone and graduate student Jerome Coonen met to discuss Kahan's plan for a standard for floating point arithmetic. Kahan had attended the second meeting of the new IEEE standards subcommittee 754 and he had a plan to bring an ambitious proposal to the third meeting, coming in April 1978. And so arose the first drafts of what became IEEE 754. +
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The company "Nichiden Kogyo" where Shigeichi Negishi invented and manufactured the first karaoke machine no longer exists.
However, his daughter, Atsumi Takano, and son, Akihiro Negishi, each has built houses and live on the site where the former company existed.
There is a tobacco shop on the land lot of the former factory. The tobacco shop was started by Shigeishi Negishi when he retired and is now succeeded by his daughter. The plaque will be placed at the Tobacco shop facing the street. +
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Mobile Radio Propagation Model “OKUMURA-curve” and First Commercialized Full-Scale Cellular Telephone System, 1968-1979 +
<br><br><No. 1> Corporate building of R&D center of NTT DOCOMO, INC.: This building is located in the area of Yokosuka City where the World's First Full-Scale Cellular Telephone System was developed. <br><No. 2> Corporate building of Historical enter of NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION: This building is located in the area of Musashino City where the Mobile Radio Propagation Model and the World's First Full-Scale Cellular Telephone System were developed. +
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<br><br>Site: Block-H, Bletchley Park, Bletchley, MK3 6DS, UK.
Block-H is one of many historical buildings on Bletchley Park dating from World War II. It was constructed specifically to house codebreaking machines, cryptographers, engineers and associated staff. Six Colossus machines were installed and operated in Block-H from 1944 to 1945.
In 2017 Block-H was listed in by Historic England as one of England’s “100 Irreplaceable Places” (https://historicengland.org.uk/campaigns/100-places/science-discovery/#Section4Text).
Block-H has been accorded Listed Grade 2 Status by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, signifying that it is “of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve it.”
The building is owned by the Bletchley Park Trust but outside the perimeter of their Bletchley Park codebreaking museum.
Block-H is publicly accessible from the main entrance to Bletchley Park via a direct access road leading to The National Museum of Computing ([http://www.tnmoc.org http://www.tnmoc.org]). +
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<br>It is proposed that a plaque be installed at each of the institutions that first demonstrated the semiconductor laser in the fall of 1962: <br><br>GE Research Niskayuna and Syracuse - Corporate Building <br> IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center - Corporate Building <br> MIT Lincoln Laboratory - Corporate Building +
Invention of Temparature- Insensitive Quartz Oscillation Plate Enabling HIghly Stable Communications and Clocks, 1933 +
<div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;">Tokyo Institute of Technology is the place where R<sub>1</sub>-cut quartz crystal plate was invented and tested. The intended plaque site is the Museum of Tokyo Institute of Technology. This museum is located in the same premises of the Institute.</div><br/> +
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<div>If your group is 9 people or less, you can freely tour the exhibits without making a reservation.</div>
If your group is 10 people or more, please make a reservation.
:E-mail: panasonicmuseum.cs@kk.jp.panasonic.com
:URL: https://holdings.panasonic/global/corporate/about/history/panasonic-museum.html +
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AT&T Labs and Nokia Bell Labs corporate buildings. There are other historical markers already at each of the sites. Alternative and or additional sites include at the Archives location in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, the new Nokia Headquarters location in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the AT&T Headquarters in Texas. +
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Improvements in and relating to Sound-transmission, Sound-recording and Sound-reproduction systems by Alan Dower Blumlein +
Abbey Road Studios are working studios having been established in 1931. Abbey Road was the site of where on January 19th 1934, Alan Blumlein used his Stereo recording equipment to record Sir Thomas Beecham conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mozart's Jupiter Symphony.
There is one existing plaque on the front of Abbey Road which is dedicated to Sir Edward Elgar who officially opened the Abbey Road Studios on November 12th 1931 +
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Address: 2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyuushu, 802-8601 Japan; GPS: N 33.87491, E 130.87273 +
