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Date Image Innovation City State Country
1957-1958 Arne Larsson First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker Toronto CA USA
1906 Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant Seattle WA USA
1906 500 CPS Synchronous Rotary Gap transmitter at Brant Rock, Ma. Ca: 1906. First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden Brant Rock MA USA
1969 Birthplace of the Internet Mountain View CA USA
1947 Transistor Transistor Murray Hill NJ USA
1907 AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (DUPE: IEEE+ASME) AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (DUPE: IEEE+ASME) Cos Cob CT USA
1895 Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant Niagara Falls NY USA
1876 First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire Boston MA USA
1852 Electric Fire Alarm System Electric Fire Alarm System Boston MA USA
1963 NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope Arecibo PR USA
1838 Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy Morristown NJ USA
1751 Book "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin Philadelphia PA USA
1946 ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) Philadelphia PA USA
1891 Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant Ophir CO USA
1904 Alexanderson Radio Alternator Schenectady NY USA
1974-1982 First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks Lexington MA USA
1950-1969 Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches Brevard County FL USA
1962 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Portola Valley CA USA
1958 First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC) Dallas TX USA
1972 Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator Palo Alto CA USA

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