R1 Historic Milestones

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	Year of Achievement	Date Dedicated	Section	Dedication #
Alternating-Current Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, 1907	1907	22-May-82	Connecticut	3
Two-Way Police Radio Communication, 1933	1933	01-May-87	North Jersey	10
FM Police Radio Communication, 1940	1940	01-Jun-87	Connecticut	11
Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy, 1838	1838	07-May-88	North Jersey	13
Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant, 1895	1895	21-Jun-90	Buffalo	17
MIT Radiation Laboratory, 1940-1945	1940	01-Oct-90	Boston	19
Alexanderson Radio Alternator, 1904	1904	20-Feb-92	Schenectady	22
Monochrome-Compatible Electronic Color Television, 1946-1953	1946	29-Nov-01	Princeton/Central Jersey	40
First Transatlantic Transmission of a Television Signal via Satellite, 1962	1962	01-Jul-02	Maine	44
Electric Fire Alarm System, 1852	1852	01-Oct-04	Boston	50
Alternating Current Electrification, 1886	1886	02-Oct-04	Berkshire	51
Power System of Boston's Rapid Transit, 1889	1889	10-Nov-04	Boston	52
First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire, 1876	1876	10-Mar-06	Boston	67
Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park, 1876	1876	09-Sep-06	Princeton/Central Jersey	68
Liquid Crystal Display, 1968	1968	30-Sep-06	Princeton/Central Jersey	71
First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden, 1906	1906	13-Sep-08	Boston	78
Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929	1929	25-Sep-08	New York	79
Thomas A. Edison West Orange Laboratories and Factories, 1887	1887	18-Oct-08	North Jersey	76
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 1960 - 1984	1960	16-Oct-09	New York	91
Invention of the First Transistor at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1947	1947	08-Dec-09	North Jersey	89
TIROS-1 Television Infrared Observation Satellite, 1960	1960	27-Sep-10	Princeton/Central Jersey	101
Pearl Street Station, 1882	1882	10-May-11	New York	114
Grumman Lunar Module, 1962-1972	1962	20-Jul-11	Long Island	115
First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks, 1974 - 1982	1974	08-Dec-11	Boston	117
Apollo Guidance Computer, 1962-1972	1962	13-Dec-11	Boston	118
World's First Low-Loss Optical Fiber for Telecommunications, 1970	1970	01-May-12	Rochester	121
Loran, 1940 - 1946	1940	27-Jun-12	Boston	123
Whirlwind Computer, 1944-59	1944	27-Jun-12	Boston	124
Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) 1951-1958	1951	27-Jun-12	Boston	125
First Optical Fiber Laser and Amplifier, 1961-1964	1961	26-Oct-12	Worcester County	131
First Blind Takeoff, Flight and Landing, 1929	1929	24-Sep-14	Long Island	145
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., 1925-1983	1925	18-Dec-14	North Jersey	151
Interactive Video Games, 1966	1966	21-Sep-15	New Hampshire	158
Shannon Development of Information Theory	1939	17-May-16	Boston	163
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII, 1963	1963	19-May-16	New Jersey Coast	165
Trans-Atlantic Telephone Fiber-optic Submarine Cable (TAT-8) - 1988	1988	19-May-16	New Jersey Coast	166
Weston Meters 1887-1893	1893	23-Sep-16	North Jersey
Grand Central Terminal Electrification	1906	15-Jun-16	New York	168