SETI Enabling Technology Milestones

0010-001

Descriptive materials:

• Vacuum Tube (18xx)

• Electrification (18xx)

• Radio Broadcasts (1922)

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• Photomultipliers (PMTs) - John Pierce, Electrical Engineer, an oral history conducted in 1992 by Andrew Goldstein, IEEE History Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

• Electronic Television Broadcasts (1936)

• Microwave Radar (1939)

• 931A First Commercial Photomultiplier (1948)

• Transistor (1948)

• Maser (19xx)

• 56AVP - First Fast Photomultiplier (1956)

• Optical Maser (1958)

• First Integrated Circuit (1958)

• Cocconi & Morrison - MSETI (1959)

• Project Ozma - MSETI (1960)

• First Laser (1960)

• Schwartz & Townes - MSETI (1961)

• Monte Ross - OSETI (1965)

• Transistor-Coupled Logic (19xx)

• Cyclops Report - SETI (1973)

• Shvartsman & Beskin - OSETI (19xx)

• Fast Emitter-Coupled Logic (19xx)

• The PC (1981)

• Fast, Low Noise Avalanche Photodetectors (1988)

• COSETI Observatory (1990)

• Townes & Betz - OSETI (19xx)

• OSETI I Conference (1993)

• OSETI II Conference (1996)

• SETI Institute/Planetary Society - OSETI (1998)

• OSETI III Conference (2001)

• 1 Hector Array - MSETI (20xx)

• Milestones

• 0010-002 SETI Milestones