Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering

The following timeline tables list the discoveries and inventions in the history of electrical and electronic engineering. The following list of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) milestones represents key historical achievements in electrical and electronic engineering. 1745–1746 – Leyden jar capacitor by Ewald Georg von Kleist and Pieter van Musschenbroek 1751 – Book Experiments and Observations on Electricity by Benjamin Franklin 1757–1775 – Benjamin Franklin's Work in London 1799 – Alessandro Volta's Electrical Battery Invention 1836 – Nicholas Callan's Pioneering Contributions to Electrical Science and Technology 1828–1837 – Pavel Schilling's Pioneering Contribution to Practical Telegraphy 1838 – Demonstration of Practical Telegraphy 1852 – Electric Fire alarm system 1857 – Heinrich Geissler discovered the first gas discharge tubes in the world, a predecessor of today's neon lighting – Geissler tube 1861–1870 – Maxwell's equations 1861 – Transcontinental Telegraph 1866 – Landing of the Transatlantic Cable 1866 – County Kerry Transatlantic Cable Stations 1876 – First Intelligible Voice Transmission over Electric Wire 1876 – First Distant Speech Transmission in Canada 1876 – Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park 1878 – Ganz Company starts working with single-phase AC power systems in Budapest, Austro-Hungary 1882 – Vulcan Street Plant 1882 – Pearl Street Station 1882 – First Central Station in South Carolina 1883 – Gaulard–Gibbs AC distribution system was published in Great Britain 1884 – First AIEE Technical Meeting 1884 – First AC power transmission system (Gaulard–Gibbs) in the world from Lanzo to Turino, Italy 1885 – ZBD system AC transformer was invented by three Hungarian engineers: Károly Zipernowsky, Ottó Bláthy, Miksa Déri 1885 – Galileo Ferraris conceives the idea of the first polyphase AC motor 1885 – Elihu Thomson at Thomson-Houston started the first company in the USA to work on AC 1886 – Buffalo, New York, receives the USA's first commercial AC power system designed by George Westinghouse, William Stanley, and Oliver B.