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The following list of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) milestones represents key historical achievements in electrical and electronic engineering.


Prior to 1800
  • 1751 – Book Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin
  • 1757–1775 – Benjamin Franklin's Work in London
  • 1799 – 's


1800–1850
  • 1804 – Francisco Salvá Campillo's Electric Telegraph
  • 1820–1827 – The Birth of Electrodynamics
  • 1828–1837 – 's Pioneering Contribution to Practical Telegraphy
  • 1836 – 's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology
  • 1838 – Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy


1850–1870
  • 1852 – Electric Fire alarm system
  • 1860–1871 – Maxwell's equations
  • 1860–1863 – First Studies on for Direct-Current Dynamos
  • 1861 – Transcontinental Telegraph
  • 1861–1867 – Standardisation of the Ohm
  • 1866 – Landing of the Transatlantic Cable
  • 1866 –


1870–1890
  • 1876 – First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire
  • 1876 – Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park
  • 1876 – First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada
  • 1882 – Vulcan Street Plant
  • 1882 – First Central Station in
  • 1882 – Pearl Street Station
  • 1884 – First AIEE Technical Meeting
  • 1885 – Rotating Fields and Early
  • 1886 – Alternating Current Electrification, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, by William Stanley, Jr.
  • 1886 – First Generation and Experimental Proof of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 1886–1888 – Electric Lighting of the Kingdom of Hawaii
  • 1887 – Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories
  • 1887 – Weston Meters, first portable current and voltage meters
  • 1888 – Richmond Union Passenger Railway
  • 1889 – Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit
  • 1889 – First Exploration and Proof of Liquid Crystals


1890–1900
  • 1890 – Discovery of Radioconduction by Édouard Branly, making use of a
  • 1890 – Keage Power Station, Japan's First Commercial Hydroelectric Plant
  • 1891 – Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant
  • 1893 – Mill Creek No. 1 Hydroelectric Plant
  • 1893 – Birth and Growth of Primary and Secondary Battery Industries in Japan
  • 1894 – First Communication Experiments by Jagadish Chandra Bose
  • 1895 – Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant
  • 1895 – Popov's Contribution to the Development of Wireless Communication
  • 1895 – Guglielmo Marconi's Experiments in Wireless telegraphy
  • 1895 – Electrification by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
  • 1895 – Krka-Šibenik Electric Power System
  • 1895 – Folsom Powerhouse three-phase system
  • 1896 –
  • 1897 – Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant
  • 1898 – Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant
  • 1898 – Rheinfelden Hydroelectric Power Plant
  • 1898 – French Transatlantic Telegraph Cable
  • 1899–1902 – First Operational Use Of Wireless Telegraphy in the
  • 1899 – Calcutta Electric Supply Corp


1900–1920
  • 1900 – Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant
  • 1901 – Transmission of Transatlantic Radio Signals
  • 1901 – Reception of Transatlantic Radio Signals
  • 1901 – Early Developments in by Leonardo Torres Quevedo
  • 1901–1902 – Rationalization of Units
  • 1901–1905 String Galvanometer
  • 1902 – Poulsen-Arc Radio Transmitter
  • 1903 – Vučje Hydroelectric Plant
  • 1904 – Alexanderson Radio Alternator
  • 1904 –
  • 1904 –
  • 1906 – Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project
  • 1906 – First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald Fessenden
  • 1906 – Grand Central Terminal Electrification
  • 1907 – Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
  • 1909 – Shoshone Transmission Line
  • 1909 – World's First Reliable Hight Voltage
  • 1911 – Discovery of superconductivity
  • 1914 – Electrical and Control Installations
  • 1915–1918 – Invention of
  • 1916 – Czochralski Process


1920–1930
  • 1920 – Westinghouse KDKA (AM)
  • 1920 – Funkerberg Königs Wusterhausen first radio broadcast in Germany
  • 1921–1923 – Piezoelectric Oscillator
  • 1921 – RCA Central, 220 kW transoceanic radio facility
  • 1922 –
  • 1924 – Directive Antenna (Yagi–Uda antenna)
  • 1924–1941 – Development of electronic television
  • 1924 – major contribution to semiconductor statistics
  • 1925 –
  • 1926 – First Public Demonstration of Television
  • 1928 – One-way communication
  • 1928 –
  • 1929 – for the electrification of the Irish Free State
  • 1929 – Largest private (DC) generating plant in the U.S.A.
  • 1929 – Yosami Radio Transmitting Station
  • 1929 – First blind takeoff, flight, and landing; using designated radio and aeronautical instrumentation


1930–1940
  • 1930–1945 – Development of and their applications
  • 1931 – Invention of Stereo Sound Reproduction
  • 1932 – First Breaking of Code by the Team of Polish Cipher Bureau
  • 1933 –
  • 1933 – Invention of a Temperature-Insensitive Quarz Oscillaiton Plate
  • 1934 – Long-Range Voice Transmissions from Byrd's Antarctic Expedition
  • 1937 – Westinghouse Atom Smasher
  • 1938 – Zenit Parabolic Reflector L-Band Pulsed Radar
  • 1939 – Atanasoff–Berry Computer
  • 1939–1945 – Code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II
  • 1939 – Single-element Unidirectional Microphone – Shure Unidyne
  • 1939 – , development of Information Theory
  • 1939–1949 – Development of the Cavity Magnetron


1940–1950
  • 1940 – Communication
  • 1940–1945 – MIT Radiation Laboratory
  • 1940–1946 – , long range navigation
  • 1941 – Opana Radar Site
  • 1942–1945 – US Naval Computing Machine Laboratory
  • 1944–1959 – Whirlwind Computer, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 1944–1959 – Harvard Mark 1 Computer
  • 1945 – Merrill Wheel-Balancing System
  • 1945 – Rincón del Bonete Plant and Transmission System
  • 1946 – Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
  • 1946–1953 – Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television
  • 1946 – Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon
  • 1947 – Invention of the First at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.
  • 1947 – Invention of
  • 1948 – Birth of the
  • 1948 – The Discovery of the Principle of Self-Complementarity in Antennas and the Mushiake Relationship
  • 1948 – First Atomic Clock
  • 1948–1951 – Manchester University "Baby" Computer and its Derivatives


1950–1960
  • 1950–1969 – Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches
  • 1950 – First External Cardiac Pacemaker
  • 1951 – Manufacture of
  • 1951 – Experimental Breeder Reactor I
  • 1951–1958 – SAGE-Semi-Automatic Ground Environment
  • 1951–1952 – A-0 Compiler and Initial Development of Automatic Programming
  • 1953 – First Television Broadcast in Western Canada
  • 1954 –
  • 1955 – Computer
  • 1956 – RAMAC
  • 1956 – The First Submarine Transatlantic Telephone Cable System (TAT-1)
  • 1956–1963 – Kurobe River No. 4 Hydropower Plant
  • 1956 – Videotape Recorder
  • 1956 – Birth of
  • 1957–1958 – First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker
  • 1957 – SRC/
  • 1957–1962 – Atlas Computer and the Invention of
  • 1958 – First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) by
  • 1958 – Star of Laufenburg Interconnection
  • 1958 – The Trans-Canada Microwave System
  • 1959 – Semiconductor by and silicon integrated circuit by
  • 1959 – Commercialization and industrialization of photovoltaic cells by Sharp Corporation


1960–1970
  • 1961–1984 – IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
  • 1960 – TIROS I Television Infrared Observation Satellite
  • 1960 – First Working Laser
  • 1961–1964 – First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier
  • 1962–1967 – Object-oriented programming
  • 1962 – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
  • 1962 – Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program
  • 1962 – First Transatlantic Television Signal via Satellite
  • 1962 – First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite
  • 1962 –
  • 1962–1967 – Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch at Centre Electronique Horloger, Switzerland
  • 1962 – MA-6, Col. piloted the Mercury Friendship 7 spacecraft in the first FAI-legal completed human-orbital flight on 20 February 1962.
  • 1962–1972 – Grumman Lunar Module
  • 1962–1972 – Apollo Guidance Computer
  • 1962–1968 – First Geographic Information System
  • 1962 – Semiconductor Laser
  • 1963 – NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope
  • 1963 – Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant
  • 1963 –
  • 1963 –
  • 1964 – Mount Fuji Radar System
  • 1964 – Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
  • 1964–1973 – Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators by Sharp Corporation
  • 1964 – TPC-1 Transpacific Cable System
  • 1964 – High-definition television System
  • 1964 – BASIC Computer Language
  • 1965–1984 – Alvin Deep-Sea Research Submersible
  • 1965 – First 735 kV AC Transmission System
  • 1965–1971 – Railroad Ticketing Examining System (developed by of Japan)
  • 1965 –
  • 1965 – Moore's Law
  • 1965–1978 – Development of Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
  • 1966 – Interactive Video Games
  • 1966 – Shakey, the first mobile robot to be able to reason about its actions
  • 1966 –
  • 1967 – First Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry
  • 1968 – CERN Experimental Instrumentation
  • 1968 – Liquid-crystal display by George H. Heilmeier
  • 1968 – Public Demonstration of Online Systems and Personal Computing
  • 1969 – Electronic Quartz Wristwatch, Seiko Quartz-Astron 35SQ
  • 1969 – Birth of the
  • 1969 – Inception of the
  • 1969–1975 – Invention of Public-key Cryptography
  • 1969 – Apollo 11 Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment (LURE)
  • 1969 – Parkes Radiotelescope
  • 1969–1995 – Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System


1970–1980
  • 1970 – World's First Low-Loss Optical Fiber for Telecommunications
  • 1971–1978 – The first word processor for the Japanese Language, JW-10
  • 1969–1970 – Circuit Simulation Program
  • 1971 – Demonstration of the ALOHA Packet Radio Data Network
  • 1971 – First Computerized Tomography (CT) X-ray Scanner
  • 1971–1977 – Development of the Commercial Laser Printer
  • 1972 – Nelson River HVDC Transmission System
  • 1972 – Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator
  • 1972 – Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station
  • 1972 – First Practical Field Emission Electron Microscope
  • 1972 – SHAKEY: The World’s First Mobile Intelligent Robot
  • 1972 – Polymer Self-Regulating Heat-Tracing Cable
  • 1972–1989 – Gravitational-Wave Antenna
  • 1972–1987 – Deep Space Station 43
  • 1972–1983 – The Xerox Alto Establishes Personal Networked Computing
  • 1973–1985 – Superconducting Magnet System for the Fermilab Tevatron Accelerator/Collider
  • 1973 – The First Two-Dimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI)
  • 1973–1985 – Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN)
  • 1974 – First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the
  • 1974–1982 – First Real-Time Speech Communication on
  • 1974 – The CP/M Microcomputer Operating System
  • 1974 – Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) Enables the Internet
  • 1975 – Line Spectrum Pair (LSP) for high-compression
  • 1975 – Gapless Metal Oxide Surge Arrester (MOSA) for electric power systems
  • 1975 – Handheld Digital Camera
  • 1976 – Development of , a World Standard for Home Video Recording
  • 1976–1978 – The Floating Gate EEPROM
  • 1977 – Lempel–Ziv Data Compression Algorithm
  • 1977 – Vapor-phase Axial Deposition Method for Mass Production of High-quality Optical Fiber
  • 1977 – Perpendicular Magnetic Recording
  • 1978 – Speak & Spell, the First Use of a Digital Signal Processing IC for Speech Generation
  • 1978 – First Digitally Processed Image from a Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • 1978 – First Demonstration of a Fibre Bragg Grating
  • 1979 – Audio Player
  • 1979 – 20-inch Diameter Photomultiplier Tubes
  • 1979 – Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Field-Effect Transistor Switches for Liquid Crystal Displays
  • 1979 – (high-electron-mobility transistor)


1980 to 1990
  • 1980 – International Standardization of Group 3 Facsimile
  • 1980–1982 – First RISC (Reduced Instruction-Set Computing) Microprocessor
  • 1980 – Outdoor large-scale color display system
  • 1980 – MPD7720DSP, programmable digital signal processor chip μPD7720
  • 1980–1981 – Inverter-Driven Air Conditioner
  • 1980–1999 – Origin of the IEEE 802 Family of Networking Standards
  • 1981 – 16-Bit Monolithic Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) for Digital Audio
  • 1981 – Map-Based Automotive navigation system
  • 1981–1988 – The Development of RenderMan for Photorealistic Graphics
  • 1982 – Nobeyama 45-m Telescope
  • 1982 – Human Rescue Enabled by Space Technology
  • 1982 – First Large-Scale Fingerprint ID
  • 1982 – Commercialization of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors with Nickel Electrodes
  • 1984 – First Direct-broadcast satellite Service
  • 1984 – The MU (Middle and Upper atmosphere) radar
  • 1984–1989 – Active Shielding of Superconducting Magnets
  • 1984–1993 – MPEG Multimedia Integrated Circuits
  • 1984 – TRON Real-time Operating System Family
  • 1984–1996 – Development of 193-nm Projection Photolithography
  • 1985 – Toshiba T1100, a Pioneering Contribution to the Development of PC
  • 1985 – Emergency Warning Code Signal Broadcasting System
  • 1985 – Multiple Technologies on a Chip
  • 1985 – IEEE Standard 754 for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic
  • 1986 – Fiber Optic Connectors
  • 1987 – High-Temperature Superconductivity
  • 1987 – Architecture
  • 1987 – Superconductivity at 93 Kelvin
  • 1987 – , Precursor of
  • 1987–1995 – MTI Portable Satellite Communication Terminals
  • 1988 – Sharp 14-Inch Thin Film Transistor Liquid-Crystal Display () for TV
  • 1988 – Virginia Smith High-Voltage Direct-Current Converter Station
  • 1988 – Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-optic Submarine Cable, TAT-8
  • 1988 – First Robotic Control from Human Brain Signals
  • 1989 – Development of for Cellular Communications


After 1990
  • 1994 – Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
  • 1994 – QR (Quick Response) Code
  • 1996–1998 – and the Birth of
  • 1996 – Large-Scale Commercialization of a CDMA Cellular Communication System


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