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Controlled Directional Drilling

World's First Oil Well

FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center

North Island Naval Air Station

Farnborough Research Establishment (Royal Aircraft Establishment)

Purdue University Airport

T.S. Lowe’s 1861 Balloon Launch

NASA Langley Research Center

Dutch Flats Airport

Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory

Picatinny Arsenal

Oakland Municipal Airport

Goddard Rocket Launch Site

NASA John C. Stennis Space Center

The Cincinnati Observatory

Lunken Field

Hobby 1940 Air Terminal

Woomera Launch Facility

Home and Birthplace of Alberto Santos-Dumont

The Boeing Red Barn

Huffman Prairie

Point Mugu Naval Base

College Park Airport

Igor I. Sikorsky Memorial Airport, formerly Bridgeport Municipal Airport

First Motorized Flight in Canada - Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Getafe Airfield

Pearson Field

Pitcairn Field #2

Kitty Hawk, NC

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Carnegie Mellon University

Legacy of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

Founding of the American Chemical Society

Izaak Maurits Kolthoff and Modern Analytical Chemistry

Infrared Spectrometer and the Exploration of Mars

Keeling Curve: Study of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Frozen Foods Research: Time-Temperature Tolerance Studies

Food Dehydration Technology

Fluid Bed Reactor

Flavor Chemistry Research at the USDA

Discovery of Ivermectin

Development of the Pennsylvania Oil Industry

DayGlo Fluorescent Pigments

Chemistry at Jamestown

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)

Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory (Charles Herty)

Development of Occupational Medicine

Titan Crane

Flight of Five Locks

Grand Central Terminal

Huey P. Long Bridge

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge

Newark Airport

Zion Mt. Carmel Tunnel and Highway

Waterford (Union) Bridge (Replaced in 1909)

Utica Memorial Auditorium

The Dalles Lock and Dam

Tacoma Narrows Bridges

Site of the Founding Meeting of ASCE on Nov 5, 1852

Reversal of the Chicago River

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Acetyl Chemicals from Coal Gasification

Transistor

First Wireless Radio Broadcast by Reginald A. Fessenden

First Wearable Cardiac Pacemaker

First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite

First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite

First Television Broadcast in Western Canada

First Semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC)

First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks

First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry

First Operational Use Of Wireless Telegraphy

First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire

First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada,

First Direct Broadcast Satellite Service

First Central Station in South Carolina

First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron

First 735 kV AC Transmission System

Experimental Breeder Reactor I

Electronic Technology for Space Rocket Launches

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

Electric Fire Alarm System

Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station

Early Developments in Remote-Control

Discovery of Superconductivity

Discovery of Radioconduction by Edouard Branly

Directive Short Wave Antenna

Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording

Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator

Development of Ferrite Materials and Their Applications

Development of Electronic Television

Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy

County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations

Compact Disc Audio Player

Commercialization and Industrialization of Photovoltaic Cells

Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant

Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology

Point of Beginning, U.S. Public Lands

River des Peres Sewage & Drainage Works

Missouri River Bridge

Lacey V. Murrow Bridge and Mount Baker Ridge Tunnels

Kansas City Park and Boulevard System

Texas Commerce Bank Building

Stevens Pass Railroad Tunnels & Switchback System

San Antonio River Walk & Flood Control System

Lake Washington Ship Canal & Hiram M. Chittenden Locks

Joining of the Rails - Transcontinental Railroad

Ironbridge

Iron Building of the U.S. Army Arsenal

International Boundary Marker #1

Ifugao Rice Terraces

Hydraulics Laboratory at the University of Iowa

Hydraulic-Inclined Plane System of the Morris Canal

Horseshoe Curve

Hoosac Tunnel

Granite Railway

Forth & Clyde Canal and Union Canal

Five Stone Arch Bridges

Firth of Forth Railway Bridge

First New York Subway

Fink Through Truss Bridge

Embudo, New Mexico Stream Gauging Station

El Camino Real - The Royal Road

Eads South Pass Navigation Works

City Plan of Philadelphia

Chesbrough's Water Supply System

Seventh Street Improvement Arches

Ohio Canal System

Louisville and Portland Canal Locks & Dam

El Camino Real (The Royal Road) Eastern Branch

Saturn V Rocket

Pegasus 3 Engine BS 916

RL-10 Rocket Engine

Arnold AFB Wind Tunnel

Boeing 367-80 (Prototype for Boeing 707)

Hydromatic Propeller

Link C-3 Flight Trainer

Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel

Worthington Horizontal Cross-compound Pumping Engine

Xerography

Zuiderzee Enclosure Dam

Wright Flyer III

Woodhead Dam

Williamsburg Bridge

Williams-Miles History of Chemistry Collection

New England Wireless and Steam Museum

Old Wisla Bridge

Wilkinson Mill

Wilkinson Mill

White River Concrete Arch Bridge

Watkins Woolen Mill

West Baden Springs Hotel

Westmoreland Iron Works

Whipple Truss Bridge

White Pass & Yukon Railroad

Watertown Arsenal

Washington Monument

Ward House

Waldo-Hancock Suspension Bridge

McCormick Reaper

Walnut Street Bridge

Vulcan Street Plant

Voyager Spacecraft Interplanetary Explorers

Viaducto del Malleco

Kentucky Dam

USS Albacore

Vandenberg Air Force Base

USS Cairo Engine and Boilers

Union Canal Tunnel

Union Station

U.S. Capitol

Turbinia

Tunkhannock Viaduct

Bollman Truss Bridge

Borden Base Line

Central Pacific Railroad

Travel Air Airplane Manufacturing Company in Wichita

Triborough Bridge Project

Tidbinbilla Tracking Station

Orroral Valley Tracking Station

Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station

Tipon

Tokaido Shinkansen (bullet train)

Tokaido Shinkansen

Thomas Viaduct Railroad Bridge

Theodore Roosevelt Dam & Salt River Project

Thames Tunnel

Menai Suspension Bridge

Multi-Zone Automatic Temperature Control System

Tennessee State Capitol

Tehachapi Pass Railroad Line

Sydney Harbour Bridge

Suez Canal Project

Statue of Liberty

Starrucca Viaduct

SS Jeremiah O'Brien

SS Badger Carferry

St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line

St. Clair Tunnel

Alternating Current Electrification (DUPE: IEEE+ASME)

SS Great Britain

Springfield Armory

Solar Energy and Energy Conversion Laboratory

Smithfield Street Bridge

Snoqualmie Falls Cavity Generating Station

Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme

Second Street Bridge

Sewall's Bridge

Shippingport Nuclear Power Station

Siegfried Marcus Car

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)

Caledonian Canal

City Plan of Savannah

Sault Ste. Marie Hydroelectric Complex

San Jacinto Monument

Samson Mine Reversible Waterwheel & Man Engine

San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge

Salginatobel Bridge

Blue Ridge Parkway

Rockville Stone Arch Bridge

Reynolds-Corliss Pumping Engine

Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill

Reed Gold Mine Ten-Stamp Mill

Refrigeration Research Museum

Alvord Lake Bridge

Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility

First Ram-Type Blowout Preventer BOP

Alexanderson Radio Alternator

Ames Hydroelectric Generating Plant

Pratt Institute Power Plant

American Precision Museum

Quebec Bridge

Queensboro Bridge

Portland Observatory

Portland Head Light

Potowmack Canal and Locks

Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge

Port Washington Power Plant

Ponte Maria Pia Bridge

Foundation of Polymer Science by Hermann Staudinger

Pit-Cast Jib Crane

Pin-Ticketing Machine

Pioneer Oil Refinery California Star Oil Works

Pioneer Zephyr

Pilatusbahn

Philadelphia Municipal Water Supply

Philadelphia City Hall

Peterborough Hydraulic (Canal) Lift Lock

Pennsylvania Turnpike (Old Section)

Peavey-Haglin Concrete Grain Elevator

Panama Canal

"Old Red" Cotton Picker

Discovery of Organic Free Radicals by Moses Gomberg

Paddle Steamer Uri

Northern Pacific High Line Bridge No 64

Northampton Street Bridge

NS Savannah

Nucleic Acid and Protein Chemistry Research at Rockefeller University

Norris Dam

NMR and MRI: Applications in Chemistry and Medicine

Newark Airport

The Reactive Noble Gases

New Castle Ice Harbor

Navajo Bridge

National Road

Nassawango Iron Furnace

NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope

NASA Ames Research Center

NASA Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel

Mullan Road

Mount Wilson Observatory, 100-inch Hooker Telescope

Moseley Wrought Iron Arch Bridge

Morris Canal Reaction Turbine

Montgomery Glider

Morison's Memphis Bridge

Mormon Tabernacle

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse

Model T

Moffat Tunnel

Monongahela Incline

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant

Milwaukee River Flushing Station

Old Mill in Nantucket

United States Military Academy

Middlesex Canal

Rogue River Bridge

Adams Hydroelectric Generating Plant

McKinley Climatic Laboratory

McNeill Street Pumping Station

Mason-Dixon Line

Marshall Building

Manhattan Bridge

Machu Picchu

Mackinac Bridge

Belle of Louisville

Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

Lombard Steam Log Hauler

Zhaozhou (or Anji) Bridge

Lawrence Experiment Station

Leavitt-Riedler Pumping Engine

High Bridge

Invention of the LASER

Hacienda La Esperanza Sugar Mill Steam Engine

Knight Foundry and Machine Shop

Kinzua Railway Viaduct

King's Road

Charles River Basin Project

Kaplan Turbine

Kavanagh Building

Bridges of Keeseville

Kamehameha V Post Office

Joshua Hendy Iron Works

Discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestly

Johnstown Incline

Jackson Ferry Shot Tower

Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder

Jeep Model MB

John A. Roebling Bridge

John Penn & Sons Oscillating Steam Engine

Center Pivot Irrigator

Birthplace of the Internet

Interborough Rapid Transit System Original Line

Hwaseong Fortress

Sweetwater Dam

Icing Research Tunnel, NASA Lewis Research Center

Ingalls Building

Hoover Dam

Houston Ship Channel

Houston Municipal Airport Terminal

Howard Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1

Hughes Two-Cone Drill Bit

Holyoke Water Power System

Holt Caterpillar Tractor

Holland Tunnel Ventilation System

Havemeyer Hall

Polymer Research Institute

Hohokam Canal System

Hanford B Reactor

Hanford B Reactor

Harris-Corliss Steam Engine

Cranetown Triangulation Site

Guayabo Ceremonial Center

Gunnison Tunnel

Eiffel Tower

Hagia Sophia

Victoria Dutch Windmill

Greens Bayou Generator Plant

Gravimetric Coal Feeder

Invention of COBOL Programming by Grace Murray Hopper

Grand Coulee Dam

Graue Mill

Gota Canal

Gosport Naval Dry Docks

Goodyear Airdock

Goldfields Water Supply

Golden Gate Bridge

Going-to-the-Sun Road

Ginaca Pineapple Processing Machine

Georgetown Steam Hydro Generating Plant

Getafe Airfield

Gilman Hall

Georgetown Steam Plant

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Deciphering the Genetic Code

GE Re-entry Systems

Fusion-welded Test Boiler Drum

Galveston Seawall and Grade Raising

Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel

Frankford Avenue Bridge

Fritz Engineering Laboratory

Discovery of Fullerenes

FMC Citrus Juice Extractor

Folsom Hydroelectric Power System

Folsom Power House #1

Fort Peck Dam

Fink Deck Truss Bridge

Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House

Fairmount Water Works

Evinrude Outboard Motor

Ellicott's Stone

Advanced Engine Test Facility at Marshall Space Center

Erie Canal

Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Elephant Butte Dam

Eiffel Drop Test Machine and Wind Tunnel

Eglin Air Force Base

Edison Experimental Recording Phonograph

Edison 'Jumbo' Engine-Driver Dynamo

Eddystone Lighthouse

Eads Bridge

Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cheussees

Eddystone Station Unit #1

Durango-Silverton Branch of the D&RGW RR

Duquesne Incline

Dunlap's Creek Bridge

Duck Creek Aqueduct

Downey Industrial Plant

Drake Oil Well

Drake Oil Well

Druid Lake Dam

Digital Micromirror Device

Dismal Swamp Canal

Disneyland Monorail System

Dorton Arena

Detroit-Windsor Tunnel

Detroit Edison District Heating System

Delta Air Lines’ Original 1940s Buildings

Davis Island Lock and Dam

Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant

Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct

Denison Dam

Crozet's Blue Ridge Tunnel

Cruquius Pumping Station

Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railway

David Taylor Model Basin

Crown Cork and Soda Filling Machine

Croton Water Supply System

Creusot Steam Hammer

Cortland Street Drawbridge

The Cotton Module Builder

Craigellachie Bridge

Cooper Steam Traction Engine Collection

Cooperative Fuel Research Engine

Corning Ribbon Machine

Cornish - Windsor Covered Bridge

Cornwall Iron Furnace

Cooper-Bessemer Type GMV Integral-Angle Gas Compressor

Coolspring Power Museum

Conwy Tubular Bridge

Atanasoff-Berry Computer

First Concrete Pavement

Conwy Suspension Bridge

Commonwealth Building Heat Pump

Colvin Run Mill

Columbia-Wrightsville Bridge

Columbia River Scenic Highway

BF Clyde's Cider Mill

East Wells Onieda Street Power Plant

Code-Breaking at Bletchley Park during World War II

Colorado River Aqueduct

Cleveland Hopkins Airport

Birthplace of the SPICE Circuit Simulation Program

Cincinnati Observatory

Chestnut Street Pumping Engine

Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad Roundhouse

Childs-Irving Hydroelectric Project

Choate Bridge

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal

Cheesman Dam

CERN Experimental Instrumentation

Carrollton Viaduct

Chandler Chemistry Laboratory

Chapin Mine Pump

Chain of Rocks Water Purification Plant

Cedar Falls Water Supply

Bunker Hill Covered Bridge

Castillo de San Marcos

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Canton Viaduct

Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology

Cape Cod Canal

Old Cape Henry Lighthouse

Cabin John Aqueduct

Burton Farmers Gin Mill

Buffalo Bill Dam

Brooks AFB, Old Hangar 9

Browning Firearms Collection

Buckeye Steam Traction Ditcher

Brandywine River Powder Mills

Bremen Airport

Bridgeport Covered Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Boyden Hydraulic Turbines

Boston Subway

Book "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin

Birome Ballpoint Pen Collection

Blenheim Bridge

Blood Heat Exchanger

Blimp Hangars

Big Brutus Mine Shovel

Bidwell Bar Suspension Bridge

Bethlehem Waterworks

Belle Fourche Dam

Benjamin Franklin's Work in London

Central Yacht Basin

Belle Isle Gas Turbine

Montgomery Bell's Tunnel

Bailey Island Bridge

Baltimore & Ohio Roundhouse & Shop Complex

Basic-Oxygen Steel Making Vessel

Bay City Walking Dredge

Bayonne Bridge

Atlas Launch Vehicle

Atlantic City Convention Hall

Bonneville Dam, Columbia River System

Arroyo Seco Parkway

Ascutney Mill Dam

Armour-Swift-Burlington Bridge

A.B. Wood Screw Pump

Apollo Space Command Module

Apollo Lunar Module LM-13

AC Electrification of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (DUPE: IEEE+ASME)

George Washington Bridge

The Chemical Revolution - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier

Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program

Alligator Amphibian

Ljungstrom Air Preheater

Alaska Highway

Alden Research Laboratory Rotating Boom

Allegheny Portage Railroad

ALCOA 50,000-ton Hydraulic Forging Press

Acueducto de Segovia

Acueducto de Queretaro

Acequias of San Antonio

Sholes & Glidden 'Type Writer'

Southern Railway Spencer Shops

Saugus Ironworks

Radio City Music Hall Hydraulically Actuated Stage

Noria al-Muhammadiyya

Pierce-Donachy Ventricular Assist Device

Pullman Sleeping Car Glengyle

Newcomen Engine

Mr. Charlie Oil Drilling Rig

Lapeyre Automatic Shrimp Peeling Machine

Ditch Witch DWP Service-Line Trencher

Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No. 8

Bergen County Steam Collection

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code

Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar Apparatus

Penn. RR GG1 Electric Locomotive #4800

Southern Pacific #4294 Cab-in-Front Steam Locomotive

Thermo King© C Refrigeration Unit

IBM 350 RAMAC Disk File

Miami Conservancy District

Sikorsky VS-300 Helicopter

Grumman Wildcat “Sto-Wing” Wing-folding Mechanism

Maine Turnpike

Norfolk & Western #611, Class J Steam Locomotive

Holland Tunnel

North Island Main Trunk Railway

Keokuk Hydro-Power System

Idols Station, Fries Manufacturing & Power Company

Engine-Driven Dynamo

Marlette Lake Water System

Muskingum River Navigation System

Mount Washington Cog Railway

Louisville Waterworks

Great Western Railway

Prehistoric Mesa Verde Reservoirs

Lowell Waterpower System

Great Falls Raceway and Power System

Aberdeen Range, Aberdeen Proving Ground

Rumford Baking Powder

First Electrolytic Production of Bromine

Research on the Atomic Weight of Oxygen by Edward W. Morley

C.V. Raman and the Raman Effect

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Blue Ridge Mountains

Bridge City, LA 70094

Calcutta, India

Coalbrookdale-Ironbridge

College Station

College Station

Dublin to Belfast

East Garden City

Egg Harbor Township

Faiyum District

Freiburg im Breisgau

Great Barrington

Greenwich Township

Isle of Anglesey

Kingston Springs

Long Island City

Mexico City to Santa Fe

Montezuma County

New York City to Hoboken

Newcastle upon Tyne

North Shannonvale

North Vancouver

Phillipsburg to Newark Bay

Quincy and Milton

Sankt Andreasberg

Santiago de Querétaro

Sault Ste. Marie

Saulte Sainte Marie

South Deerfield

Stockton Springs

Tonto National Forest

Truth or Consequences

University Park

Washington, D.C.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

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Buckinghamshire

Västra Götaland County

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