Timeline

2026-06-23

LineShine supercomputer · 2.198 EFLOPS · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

2025-09-26

Saudi Electricity Company Bisha BESS · 2,000 MWh · Bisha, Saudi Arabia

2025-08-29

Dongfang Electric 26-MW offshore-design wind turbine prototype · 26 MW · Onshore testing base, Dongying, Shandong, China

2025-01-01

2Africa submarine cable system · First achievement · Submarine route linking East and West African coasts, extending to Europe, Middle East and South Asia

2024-12-31

Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station · 3600 MW · Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, Chengde, Hebei, China

2024-11-01

El Capitan supercomputer · 1.742 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA

2024-09-22

Hefei 42.02-tesla resistive magnet · 42.02 tesla · High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Hefei, Anhui, China

2024-04-30

University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory · 5640 m · University of Tokyo Atacama Observatory site

2024-04-23

Factory of the Future 1.0 3D printer · 55,296 cubic feet · University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA

2024-04-01

Intel's first commercial High-NA EUV system · First achievement · Intel Fab D1X, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA

2023-12-29

Viking Link · about 765 km · Bicker Fen, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom — Revsing, southern Jutland, Denmark

2022-06-26

Solar Park of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture · 8,430 MW · Gonghe County, Qinghai, China

2022-06-01

Frontier supercomputer · 1.102 EFLOPS (exaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

2021-11-22

Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope · 4 m · Haleakalā High Altitude Observatory, Maui, Hawaii, USA

2021-11-19

Orfield Laboratories Anechoic Chamber · -24.9 dBA · Orfield Laboratories Anechoic Chamber

2021-06-28

One-million-kilowatt hydro-generating unit at Baihetan Hydropower Station · 1,000 MW · Jinsha River on the border of Ningnan County, Sichuan Province, and Qiaojia County, Yunnan Province, China (Baihetan Hydropower Station)

2021-02-05

Darlington Nuclear Generating Station Unit 1 · 1106 days · Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, Clarington, Ontario, Canada

2020-06-01

Fugaku supercomputer · 415.53 PFLOPS (petaflops) · RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Kobe, Japan

2019-09-10

Ultra-high-speed elevator at Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre · 1,260 m/min · Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

2019-04-10

Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration · First achievement

2019-01-01

Changji-Guquan ±1,100 kV UHVDC Transmission Project · ±1,100 kV · China (Changji, Xinjiang to Xuancheng, Anhui)

2018-12-13

Taishan 1 · 1,750 MWe · Taishan Nuclear Power Station, Guangdong, China

2018-06-01

Summit supercomputer · 122.3 PFLOPS (petaflops) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA

2016-05-04

IBM Quantum Experience · First achievement · Yorktown Heights, New York, USA

2016-01-01

FAST · 500 m · Guizhou Province, China

2015-09-14

LIGO Scientific Collaboration · First achievement · LIGO Livingston Observatory, Louisiana, and LIGO Hanford Observatory, Benton County, Washington, USA

2015-01-01

Qin Liangyu TBM (S-880) · 17.63 m · Tuen Mun–Chek Lap Kok Link, Hong Kong

2012-07-01

Three Gorges Power Station · 22,500 MW MW · Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei Province, China

2011-08-01

Sihwa Lake Tidal Power Station · 254 MW · Sihwa Lake embankment, Ansan, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

2011-03-19

Nagoya City Science Museum Planetarium · 35.02 m · Nagoya City Science Museum, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

2010-01-01

China Jinping Underground Laboratory · about 2400 metres · Jinping Mountain tunnel, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China

2009-03-16

Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) · 10.4 m · La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

2009-03-01

National Ignition Facility · more than 2 million joules · Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, United States

2008-09-10

Large Hadron Collider · 27 km kilometres · Near Geneva on the Franco-Swiss border, about 100 m underground

2007-01-01

Airbus A380 · over 850 seats seats (all-economy certified max)

2000-08-23

Green Bank Telescope · 100 m · Green Bank, West Virginia, USA

1990-12-01

First World Wide Web site (info.cern.ch) · First achievement · CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland

1989-01-01

Kola Superdeep Borehole · 12,262 metres · Kola Peninsula, Russia

1986-01-01

Alec Jeffreys · First achievement · Enderby, Leicestershire, England

1979-01-01

Chief Joseph Dam Hydroelectric Station · about 2,614 MW · Columbia River, Washington State, USA

1978-07-25

Louise Brown · First achievement · Oldham General Hospital, England

1961-06-09

The Domain Moving Walkway · 207 m · The Domain, Sydney, Australia

1961-01-01

Unimate · First achievement · Ewing Township, New Jersey, USA (also described historically as GM's Trenton plant)

1954-12-23

Joseph Murray · First achievement · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

1954-06-27

Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant · First achievement · Obninsk, Soviet Union (now Russia)

1951-02-01

Ferranti Mark I · First achievement · University of Manchester, England

1946-02-14

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) · First achievement · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

1913-01-01

Larderello Geothermal Power Station · First achievement · Larderello, Tuscany, Italy

1712-01-01

Newcomen atmospheric steam engine (1712) · First achievement · Near Dudley Castle, England

LSST Camera · 3,200 megapixels · NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Cerro Pachón, Chile