Engineering Innovations
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Experimental Breeder Reactor I Arco, ID |
At this facility on 20 December 1951 electricity was first generated from the heat produced by a sustained nuclear reaction providing steam to a turbine generator. This event… |
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FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center Egg Harbor Township, |
This Federal Laboratory has played a pivotal role in creating our modern air traffic control system. Established as the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in 1958,… |
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Fairbanks Exploration Company Gold Dredge No. 8 Fairbanks, AK |
This floating dredge is one of the last mammoth gold dredges in the Fairbanks Mining District that traveled an ancient stream bed, thawing the ground ahead of it and scooping up… |
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Fairmount Water Works Philadelphia, PA |
At a time when steam power was finding its first uses in America, Philadelphia opened two steam pumping stations, January 1801, to lift water from the Schuylkill River and… |
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Farmall Row Crop Tractor Burr Ridge, IL |
The First Successful Row Crop Tractor Invented by Bert R. Benjamin (ASAE Member) was Operated and Tested on this Farm in 1923. Increased Row Crop Clearance and Overall Versatility… |
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Farnborough Research Establishment (Royal Aircraft Establishment) , |
Farnborough's aeronautical history began in 1905 with the arrival of HM Balloon Factory in 1905, headed by Lt Col J.L.B. Templer. In 1908, the first powered aeroplane flight in… |
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Ferries & Cliffhouse Cable Railway Power House San Francisco, CA |
The F&CH Cable Railway, which opened in 1887, was designed and built by civil engineer Howard C. Holmes (1852-1921). The line is an amalgamation of the Powell Street Railway… |
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Fink Deck Truss Bridge Lynchburg, VI |
The Fink Deck Truss Bridge is thought to have been originally used on the Norfolk and Western mainline railway. It was moved to its present location and converted to a vehicular… |
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Fink Through Truss Bridge Hamden, NJ |
"Fink's truss design was one of a number of early patented solutions to [the problem of how] to carry a massive, moving weight (a train) over long spans (to avoid the expense of… |
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First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron Vancouver, BC |
At 3:30 pm on 15 December 1974, the first 500 MeV proton beam was extracted from the TRIUMF cyclotron. Since then, TRIUMF has used proton beams from its cyclotron (and secondary… |
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First 735 kV AC Transmission System Montréal, Quebec |
Hydro-Quebec's 735,000 volt electric power transmission system was the first in the world to be designed, built and operated at an alternating-current voltage above 700 kV. This… |
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First Aerojet Manufacturing Site Pasadena, CA |
On Colorado Blvd in Pasadena in 1942, the Aerojet Engineering Company founded the first manufacturing facility for the production of rocket propulsion systems. This site was… |
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First Balloon Launch Site Annonay, |
On 4 June 1783, Joseph Michel and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier captured the imagination of the world with their first balloon flight at Cordeliers Square. There were no… |
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First Central Station in South Carolina Charleston, SC |
The United States Electric Illuminating Company of Charleston started up South Carolina's first central station for incandescent lighting in October 1882 -- only one month after… |
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First Concrete Pavement Bellefontaine, OH |
"This is the first Portland cement concrete street built in the United States ... Here started the better roads movement which has given our citizens from coast to coast swift and… |
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First Direct Broadcast Satellite Service Tokyo, |
NHK began the world's first direct broadcast satellite service in May, 1984. This was the culmination of eighteen years of research that included the development of an inexpensive… |
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First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada, Paris, Ontario |
On 10 August 1876, Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated on this site that the human voice could be transmitted electrically over distance. While family members spoke into a… |
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First Electrolytic Production of Bromine Midland, MI |
On January 4, 1891, Herbert H. Dow succeeded in producing bromine electrolytically from central Michigan’s rich brine resources. In the years that followed, this and other… |
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First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire Boston, MA |
The first transmission of intelligible speech over electrical wires took place on 10 March 1876. Inventor Alexander Graham Bell called out to his assistant Thomas Watson, “Mr.… |
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First Motorized Flight in Canada - Baddeck, Nova Scotia Baddeck, |
AIAA designated Baddeck, Nova Scotia as a historic site, providing a plaque to commemorate the centennial of the first powered flight in Canada. On February 23, 1909,… |
