BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:US/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20211007T022457Z UID:6D0FA95B-E6BD-407C-83C6-B1F465C7FDAE DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20211006T190000 DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20211006T201500 DESCRIPTION:Come join us for a movie night to celebrate IEEE Day!\n\nIEEE D ay commemorates the date in 1884 when IEEE's predecessor\, the American In stitue of Electrical Engineers held its first technical meeting at the Int ernational Electrical Exhibition in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. You can t hink of it as being IEEE's birthday and we're having a (virtual) birthday party.\n\nWe're going to host a film on Frank Sprague and his development of the world's first successful electric streetcar system\, which he intro duced in Richmond in 1888. Yes\, you heard that right. Richmond had the fi rst successful electric streetcar system in the world. All of the other el ectric streetcar systems and electric light rail systems that followed mad e use of his innovations. Only seven years after the first system in Richm ond\, there were almost 900 electric streetcar systems in the United State s.\n\nSprague's achievements were significant enough that he earned the Ed ison Medal\, the IEEE's highest award "for a career of meritorious achieve ment in electrical science\, electrical engineering or the electrical arts ." To give you an idea of how significant his achievements were considered at the time\, he earned the award four years before it was awarded to Ale xander Graham Bell and six years before it was awarded to Nikola Tesla.\n\ nWe will be joined by the movie's filmmaker\, Patrick Gregory\, and by Ric hard Lee Bland\, historian\, who will both be available for a Q&A session following the movie.\n\nSo invite your friends\, grab your popcorn\, and w e'll see you at the (virtual) movies!\n\nSpeaker(s): Patrick Gregory\, \n\ nAgenda: \n6:45 pm - Virtual mingling prior to the movie\n\n7:00 pm - Welc ome and start the movie\n\n7:45 pm - Q&A with Patrick Gregory\, the filmma ker of the movie\, and with Richard Lee Bland\, historian.\n\n~8:15 pm - M eeting ends\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284112 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284112 ORGANIZER:allen.jones@ieee.org SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:IEEE Day Movie Night URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/284112 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>Come join us for a movie night to celebrate IEEE Day!</strong></p>\n<p>IEEE Day commemorates the date in 188 4 when IEEE's predecessor\, the American Institue of Electrical Engineers held its first technical meeting at the International Electrical Exhibitio n in Philadelphia\, Pennsylvania. You can think of it as being IEEE's birt hday and we're having a (virtual) birthday party.</p>\n<p>We're going to h ost a film on Frank Sprague and his development of the world's first succe ssful electric streetcar system\, which he introduced in Richmond in 1888. Yes\, you heard that right. Richmond had the first successful electric st reetcar system in the world. All of the other electric streetcar systems a nd electric light rail systems that followed made use of his innovations. Only seven years after the first system in Richmond\, there were almost 90 0 electric streetcar systems in the United States.</p>\n<p>Sprague's achie vements were significant enough that he earned the Edison Medal\, the IEEE 's highest award "for a career of meritorious achievement in electrical sc ience\, electrical engineering or the electrical arts." To give you an ide a of how significant his achievements were considered at the time\, he ear ned the award four years before it was awarded to Alexander Graham Bell an d six years before it was awarded to Nikola Tesla.</p>\n<p>We will be join ed by the movie's filmmaker\, Patrick Gregory\, and by Richard Lee Bland\, historian\, who will both be available for a Q&amp\;A session following t he movie.</p>\n<p>So invite your friends\, grab your popcorn\, and we'll s ee you at the (virtual) movies!</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:45 pm - Virtual mingling prior to the movie</p>\n<p>7:00 pm - Welc ome and start the movie</p>\n<p>7:45 pm - Q&amp\;A with Patrick Gregory\, the filmmaker of the movie\, and with Richard Lee Bland\, historian.</p>\n <p>~8:15 pm - Meeting ends&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR