2017 | “For the development of the flood welding process, which facilitated the repair of steel alloy forging dies, thereby extending their lifetime and productivity.” |
2016 | “For being the primary supplier of aluminum heat-treated sheet and structural members for aircraft during World War II, and for playing a significant role in the sustainability and recycling of aluminum can sheet.” “The Quincy Smelting Works is uniquely capable of interpreting the final stage of copper production for one of the few native copper ore mining regions on earth.” |
2015 | "At the forefront of expanding the business and science of metal working, Park Chemical's contributions to metallurgical advancements began here in Detroit, Michigan by visionary ASM Founder/President, William Park Woodside." "The Scranton Iron Furnaces spurred the nation's industrial revolution in iron and coal through the use of anthracite. Locally produced rails contributed to the growth of America's 19th century railroads." |
2014 | "At this site, men and women shaped aluminum from war-time need to peaceful use, learning its secrets, and developing new applications for the future." "The first family of exothermically reacting; self-bonding intermetallic forming compounds used by the thermal spray industry for improved surface protection properties was developed at this site. Process and materials were commercialized between 1965-1972." |
2013 | -
The Delhi Iron Pillar, New Delhi, India The rustless metallurgical marvel dedicated to ancient iron making traditions and blacksmiths of ancient India -
US Department of Energy Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC For advancing the materials technologies necessary to produce tritium, plutonium, and other isotopes for national defense, research and medical applications. -
The World's Heavy Hydraulic Closed-Die Forging Presses -
Alcoa, Cleveland, OH -
Alcoa, Russia -
PCC Wyman Gordon, Grafton, MA -
Aubert Duval, France -
Weber Metals, Paramount, CA -
VSMPO, Russia These giant presses enabled quantum changes in the approach of modern aircraft design by producing large, forged monolithic structures. In turn, this capability provided designers with greater flexibility in the application of new alloys; lighter, stronger, and affordable aerostructures; and more powerful and fuel efficient gas turbine engines. |
2012 | |
2011 | -
The Milk House, Electron Energy Corporation Landisville, PA -
Open Coil Annealing (OCA Operations) AccelorMittal Dofasco, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
2010 | -
Metcut Research, Inc. Cincinnati, Ohio -
Cherry Valley Coke Ovens Leetonia, Ohio -
USS Monitor off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina |
2009 | |
2008 | -
CoorsTek, Inc. Golden, Colorado -
Beehive Coke Ovens Various Southwestern Pennsylvania locations |
2007 | "In the context of naval warfare, H.L. Hunley changed the world. Its builders? innovative use of materials, design and manufacturing techniques resulted in the world?s first successful attack submarine." "For pioneering achievement in Vacuum Induction Melting of nickel-based superalloys in this facility September 19, 1957." |
2006 | -
The Liberty Bell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
The Phoenix Iron & Steel Company Phoenixville, Pennsylvania |
2005 | -
Ladish Co., Inc., Cudahy Forge Division Cudahy, Wisconsin -
Burden Iron Works Troy, New York |
2004 | |
2003 | -
The Eli Whitney Armory Hambden, CT -
L'Anse aux Meadows Newfoundland, Canada -
Populonia – Isola d'Elba Tuscany, Italy |
2002 | -
Outokumpu Flash Smelter Helsinki-Espoo, Finland -
AltaSteel Ltd. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
2001 | |
2000 | -
Hendrichs Forge Solingen, Germany -
Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Covington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio -
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory West Mifflin, Pennsylvania |
1999 | |
1998 | -
LD-Vessel Number 1 Technical Museum of Vienna Vienna, Austria -
Speedway Laboratories Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana -
Heroult Electric Arc Furnace for Smelting Iron Town of Heroult Shasta County, California |
1997 | -
Latrobe Plant Allvac-An Allegheny Teledyne Company Latrobe, Pennsylvania -
William Tod Steam Engine Former Youngstown Sheet & Tube Breir Hill Works Youngstown, Ohio |
1996 | -
48" Grey Mill Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bethlehem, Pennsylvania -
Forge of Fontenay Bourgogne, France -
Freedom Forge Standard Steel Burnham, Pennsylvania |
1995 | -
"Little Giant" Universal Testing Machine Tinius Olsen Testing Machine Co., Inc. Willow Grove, Pennsylvania -
Metals Technology Laboratories CANMET Ottawa, Ontario, Canada -
Greenwood Furnace Greenwood Furnace State Park Greenwood Furnace, Pennsylvania |
1994 | -
Wayne State University Metallurgical Engineering Laboratory Detroit, Michigan -
Tannehill Ironworks Birmingham, Alabama -
Jeffery/Champion Spark Plug Mine Mono County, California -
Edgar Thomson Plant Braddock, Pennsylvania |
1993 | -
Mound Laboratory EG&G Applied Mound Technologies Miamisburg, Ohio -
Materials Science & Technology Division Naval Research Laboratory Washington, D.C. |
1992 | -
Watervliet Plant AL Tech Specialty Steel Corp. Colonie, New York -
Electric Arc Furnace The Museum of Science & Technology Milano, Italy -
Bethforge Division Bethlehem Steel Corporation Bethlehem, Pennsylvania |
1991 | -
Research Center Armco Inc. Middletown, Ohio -
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey -
Research Laboratories Corning Glass Works Corning, New York -
Watervliet Arsenal U.S. Army Watervliet, New York |
1990 | -
Mannesmann Piercing & Pilger Mills Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG Düsseldorf-Rath, Germany -
Electric Arc Furnace Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum Remsheid, Germany -
Aluminum Research Laboratories Aluminum Company of America Alcoa Center, Pennsylvania -
Clydach Refinery Inco West Glamorgan, South Wales -
Air Force Materials Laboratory Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Dayton, Ohio |
1989 | -
AC Spark Plug Division General Motors Corporation Flint, Michigan -
Research & Development Center Carpenter Technology Corporation Reading, Pennsylvania -
DSV Alvin Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Woods Hole, Massachusetts -
The Eiffel Tower Paris, France -
Mill for the Production of Nickel-Base Alloys Inco Alloy International Huntington, West Virginia -
Oliver Chilled Plow Works South Bend, Indiana -
Ytterby Mine Resaro Island Stockholm Archipelago, Sweden |
1988 | -
Brownsville, Route 40 Bridge Brownsville, Pennsylvania -
Building 228, Experimental Station E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co. Wilmington, Delaware -
Electric Arc Furnace Daido Steel Company Ltd. Nagoya, Japan -
Ipanema Iron and Steel Works Sao Paulo, Brazil -
Kure Beach Marine Atmospheric Test Facility LaQue Center for Corrosion Technology Kure Beach, North Carolina -
Massena Plant Aluminum Company of America Massena, New York -
Metallurgy Division National Bureau of Standards Gaithersburg, Maryland -
Metalworking Furnaces Mission San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano, California -
Michigan Copper Country Coppertown Museum Calumet, Michigan -
Building "2-0-2" Northrop Aircraft El Segundo, California -
Radwerk IV Blast Furnace Vordernberg, Austria -
Paul Revere's Copper Rolling Mill Plymouth Rubber Co., Inc. Canton, Massachusetts -
Sudbury District Ore Body Sudbury, Ontario, Canada -
Research Institute for Iron and Steel Tohoku University Sendai, Japan -
Zinc Distillation Furnace Zawar mines, India |
1987 | -
Maramec Iron Works St. James, Missouri -
Argonaut Building General Motors Research Laboratories Detroit, Michigan |
1986 | -
Forest Hills Research Laboratories Westinghouse Electric Corporation Forest Hills, Pennsylvania -
La Farga de Ripoll Ripoll, Spain -
Magnesium Production, Dow Chemical Company Midland, Michigan -
Metals Research Laboratories, Elkem Metals Company Technology Center Niagara Falls, New York -
Statue of Liberty New York Harbor, New York -
Sloss Furnaces Birmingham, Alabama |
1985 | -
Blaenavon Iron Works Blaenavon, Wales -
Col. Frishmuth's Foundry Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -
Elwood Haynes Museum Kokomo, Indiana |
1984 | -
The Iron Bridge Telford, Shropshire, England -
Hashino Blast Furnace Relics Kamaishi City, Iwate, Japan -
Albany Research Center, United States Bureau of Mines Albany, Oregon -
World's First Hot and Cold-wall Hot-Isostatic-Processing (HIP) Vessels Battelle Columbus Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio |
1983 | -
Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center Watertown, Massachusetts -
The Cast Aluminum Cap on the Washington Monument Washington, D.C. -
Reed Gold Mine Cararrus County, North Carolina |
1982 | -
Acheson Graphite Company Niagara Falls, New York -
New Almaden Quicksilver Mine New Almaden, California -
Palacio de Mineria Mexico City, Mexico |
1981 | |
1980 | |
1979 | -
America's First Bessemer Steel Mill Wyandotte, Michigan -
Eads Bridge St. Louis, Missouri and East St. Louis, Illinois -
Discovery of First Economical Process for Electrolytic Extraction of Aluminum Oberlin, Ohio -
Pittsburgh Works of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -
Free Institute of Industrial Science Worcester, Massachusetts -
Saugus Iron Works Saugus, Massachusetts -
Experimental Breeder Reactor I Idaho Falls, Idaho |
1978 | -
Blast Furnace #1 Fundidora Monterrey, S.A. Monterrey, Mexico -
Cradle of Alloy Steel Republic Steel Corporation Canton, Ohio -
First Basic Oxygen Furnaces in the Western Hemisphere Dofasco Melt Shop Hamilton, Ontario, Canada -
First HYLSA Sponge Iron Plant HYLSA, S.A. Monterrey, Mexico -
General Electric Company River Works Lynn, Massachusetts -
Grumman Aerospace Corporation Bethpage, New York -
#1 Vacuum Induction Melting Furnace Special Metals Corporation New Hartford, New York |
1977 | -
Atlas Steel Concast Machine Atlas Steels Company Welland, Ontario, Canada -
Les Vieilles Forges St. Maurice Quebec Historical Monuments Commission Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada -
Waterbury Brass Company Mill City of Waterbury, Connecticut |
1976 | -
Location of the First Steel Converter (Kelley Steel Converter) Bethlehem Steel Corporation Johnstown, Pennsylvania -
Cornwall Iron Mine and Furnace Bethlehem Steel Corporation Cornwall, Pennsylvania -
Western Electric-Allentown Works American Telephone & Telegraph Western Electric Division Allentown, Pennsylvania -
All-Welded Test Boiler Drum Combustion Engineering, Inc. Metallurgical Laboratory Chattanooga, Tennessee -
Tredegar Iron Works Ethyl Corporation Richmond, Virginia -
Climax Mine and Mill Complex Climax Molybendum Company Division of AMAX, Inc. Climax, Colorado -
Tremont Nail Company Tremont Nail Company Wareham, Massachusetts -
Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine State of Connecticut HistoricalCommission East Granby, Connecticut -
Iron Ranges of Minnesota Iron Range Interpretive Center Chrisholm, Minnesota -
Ford Tri-Motor Airplane Island Airplanes Port Clinton, Ohio |
1975 | |
1973 | |
1972 | |