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Date Image Innovation City State Country
1984 Satellite First Direct Broadcast Satellite Service Tokyo Japan
1979 Compact Disc Audio Player Eindhoven Netherlands
1976 Development of VHS, a World Standard for Home Video Recording Yokosuka Japan
1974-1982 First Real-Time Speech Communication on Packet Networks Lexington MA USA
1974 First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron First 500 MeV Proton Beam from the TRIUMF Cyclotron Vancouver BC Canada
1972 Development of the HP-35, the First Handheld Scientific Calculator Palo Alto CA USA
1972 Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station North Shannonvale Canada
1969-1971 Birthplace of the SPICE Circuit Simulation Program Berkeley CA USA
1969 Birthplace of the Internet Mountain View CA USA
1968 CERN Experimental Instrumentation Geneva Meyrin Switzerland
1967 First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry First Radio Astronomical Observations Using Very Long Baseline Interferometry Caleden BC Canada
1965 First 735 kV AC Transmission System First 735 kV AC Transmission System Montréal Quebec Canada
1964 JR Central 700 Series Shinkansen set C40 on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Kakegawa and Shizuoka Station Tokaido Shinkansen (bullet train) Nagoya Ch?bu region Japan
1963 NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope NAIC/Arecibo Radiotelescope Arecibo PR USA
1963 First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite First Transpacific Reception of a Television (TV) Signal via Satellite Takahagi Japan
1962-1967 Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch Pioneering Work on the Quartz Electronic Wristwatch Neuchâtel Switzerland
1962 Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Portola Valley CA USA
1962 First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite First Transatlantic Reception of a Television Signal via Satellite Pleumeur-Bodou France
1962 Alouette-ISIS Satellite Program Ottawa Ontario Canada
1959 Commercialization and Industrialization of Photovoltaic Cells Osaka Japan

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