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Ieee Members Make History IEEE MEMBERS MAKE HISTORY. IEEE Milestone Showcase IEEE members have shaped the course of technical evolution! On this 10th year celebrating IEEE Day, we want to recognize and honor all of the major technological achievements that revolutionized the world as we know it today. We need your help! Let’s celebrate past milestones and look forward to future milestones by letting the world know that IEEE members make history. The winning video from each Region will be featured on the IEEE Day Facebook page and the IEEE.org home page on IEEE Day! Here’s your video challenge… 1) You can either: a) choose a milestone from the list below of established IEEE History Milestones OR b) futurecast a milestone that you think will happen in the next 10 years of technical innovation 2) Record a short video describing the milestone. It must be 60 seconds or less, in mov or mp4 format, no larger than 1 GB, and in the English language. For the IEEE History Milestones, you must use the script provided below to qualify. 3) Submit your video by 15 July! Submissions after this date may be disqualified. See full contest rules for details. Get creative! You could: Film on location of where the milestone occurred in your Region. Use image and video footage of the technology and/or members in action. (Use only images from the ETWH.org or other images/video approved for use.) Illustrate the milestone you foresee in the next 10 years with approved video and imagery. Milestone Year Region Section Script In 1970, Corning scientists and IEEE members Dr. Robert Maurer, Dr. Peter Schultz, and Dr. Donald Keck developed a highly pure optical glass that effectively transmitted light signals over long distances. This astounding medium, which is World's First Low-Loss thinner than a human hair, revolutionized global communications. By 2011, the Optical Fiber for world depended upon the continuous transmission of voice, data, and video along Telecommunications, 1970 1970 1 Rochester more than 1.6 billion kilometers of optical fiber installed around the globe. The Whirlwind computer was developed between 1945-1959 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the direction of IEEE Fellow Jay Forrester. It was the first real-time high-speed digital computer using random- access magnetic-core memory. Whirlwind featured outputs displayed on a CRT, and a light pen to write data on the screen. Whirlwindʼs success led to the United Whirlwind Computer, 1944- States Air Forceʼs Semi Automatic Ground Environment - SAGE - system and to 59 1944 1 Boston many business computers and minicomputers. Between 1888 and 1889, Edward Weston, the 4th president of AIEE, which was Weston Meters, 1887-1893 1887 1 North Jersey the predecessor of IEEE, and the Weston Electrical Instrument Company introduced the first portable and direct-reading current and voltage meters in 1888-1893. Weston's inventions enabling these meters included: the first truly permanent magnets; temperature-insensitive conductors; low-resistance and non- magnetic springs; metal coil frames where induced eddy currents provided pointer damping in1887; the electric shunt in 1893 for the measurement of large currents; and multiple current ranges in a single meter. In 1933, the police department in Bayonne, New Jersey initiated regular two-way communications with its patrol cars, a major advance over previous one-way systems. The very high frequency system developed by radio engineer and IEEE member Frank A. Gunther and station operator Vincent J. Doyle placed transmitters in patrol cars to enable patrolmen to communicate with headquarters and other cars instead of just receiving calls. Two-way police radio Two-Way Police Radio became standard throughout the country following the success of the Bayonne Communication, 1933 1933 1 North Jersey system. TAT-8, the first fiber-optic cable to cross an ocean, entered service 14 December 1988. TAT-8 was the first transatlantic cable to use optical fibers, a revolution in telecommunications. It had a capacity equivalent to 40,000 telephone circuits which was ten times the capacity of the last copper cable. Several new technologies had to be developed which were beyond those for land applications. Trans-Atlantic Telephone AT&T, British Telecom, and France Telecom led the consortium that built TAT-8, Fiber-Optic Submarine Cable New Jersey which spanned a seabed distance of 5,846 km between North America and (TAT-8), 1988 1988 1 Coast Europe. In 1960, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration launched TIROS I, the TIROS-1 Television Infrared Princeton/Centr world's first meteorological satellite, to capture and transmit video images of the Observation Satellite, 1960 1960 1 al Jersey Earth's weather patterns. RCA staff at Defense Electronics Products, the David Sarnoff Research Center, and Astro-Electronics Division designed and constructed the satellite and ground station systems. TIROS I pioneered meteorological and environmental satellite television for an expanding array of purposes. Between 1876 and 1882 at Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison, an IEEE member, developed the world’s first industrial research and development laboratory devoted to developing new technology. At this laboratory Edison and his staff developed the first system of incandescent electric lighting and electric Thomas Alva Edison Historic Princeton/ power generation, and invented recorded sound and a commercially successful Site at Menlo Park, 1876 1876 1 Central Jersey telephone transmitter. Thomas Alva Edison, an IEEE member, established his final and most comprehensive laboratory and factory complex in 1887 in West Orange, NJ. Thomas A. Edison West Edison's vision to combine basic and applied research, development, and Orange Laboratories and manufacturing in one organization became the prototype for industrial enterprises Factories, 1887 1887 1 North Jersey worldwide. Work here resulted in more than half of Edison's 1,093 patents. Researchers at Stony Brook University produced the first two-dimensional image using nuclear magnetic resonance in 1973.The proton distribution of the object, a test tube of water, was distinctly encoded using magnetic field gradients. This The First Two-Dimensional achievement was a major advance for the MRI and paved the way for its Nuclear Magnetic Resonance worldwide usage as a noninvasive method to examine body tissue for disease Image (MRI), 1973 1973 1 Long Island detection. In 1951 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology undertook the development of Semi-Automatic Ground an air defense system for the United States. The centerpiece of this defense Environment (SAGE) 1951- system was a large digital computer originally developed at MIT. The MIT Lincoln 1958 1951 1 Boston Laboratory was formed to carry out the initial development of this system and the first of some 23 SAGE control centers was completed in 1958. SAGE was the forerunner of today’s digital computer networks. Boston was the first city to build electric traction for a large-scale rapid transit system. The engineering challenge to design and construct safe, economically viable, and reliable electric power for Boston's rapid transit was met by the West End Street Railway Company, beginning in 1889. The company's pioneering efforts Power System of Boston's provided an important impetus to the adoption of mass transit systems Rapid Transit, 1889 1889 1 Boston nationwide. Thomas Alva Edison, an IEEE Member, established the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York, now Consolidated Edison, to commercialize his 1879 incandescent lamp invention. On 4 September 1882, Edison’s direct current (dc) generating station at 257 Pearl Street, began supplying electricity to customers in the First District, a one-quarter square mile (0.65 square km) area. This installation Pearl Street Station, 1882 1882 1 New York was the forerunner of all central electric generating stations. Between 1946 and 1950 the research staff of RCA Laboratories, supported by IEEE member David Sarnoff, invented the world's first electronic, monochrome- Monochrome-Compatible compatible, color television system. They worked with other engineers in the Electronic Color Television, Princeton/ industry for three years to develop a national analog standard based on this 1946-1953 1946 1 Central Jersey system, which lasted until the transition to digital broadcasting. The MIT Radiation Laboratory, operated between 1940 and 1945, advanced the allied war effort by making fundamental contributions to the design and deployment of microwave radar systems. Used on land, sea, and in the air, in many adaptations, radar was a decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict. The laboratory's 3900 employees made lasting contributions to microwave theory and MIT Radiation Laboratory, technology, operational radar, systems engineering, long-range navigation, and 1940-1945 1940 1 Boston control equipment. The rapid development of Loran -- long range navigation -- under wartime conditions at MIT’s Radiation Lab was not only a significant engineering feat but also transformed navigation, providing the world’s first near-real-time positioning information. Beginning in June 1942, the United States Coast Guard helped Loran, 1940 - 1946 1940 1 develop, install and operate Loran until 2010. Between 1964 and 1968, at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, New Jersey, a team of engineers and scientists led by IEEE member George H. Heilmeier with Louis A. Zanoni and Lucian A. Barton, devised a method for electronic control of light reflected from liquid crystals and demonstrated the first liquid crystal display. Their work launched a global industry that now produces Princeton/ millions of LCDs annually for watches, calculators, flat-panel displays in televisions, Liquid Crystal Display, 1968 1968 1 Central Jersey computers and instruments. The Direct Current (dc) generating plant installed at the New Yorker Hotel in 1929, capable of supplying electric power sufficient for a city of 35,000 people, was the largest private generating plant in the U.S.A. Steam engines drove electric Largest Private (dc) generators, with exhaust steam used for heating and other facilities.
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