IEC celebrates centenary in Geneva
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IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Jun 5, 2006
IEC is organising a number of activities to celebrate its centenary.
In a building on a bridge across the Rhone River in Geneva stand five pods, each with its own plasma screen, each screen with its own story to tell.
Together, all five tell the story of the history of electrotechnology in the 20th century and at the same time, they tell the story of the IEC.
The pods are part of an exposition being put on in Geneva to celebrate the IEC centenary as a way to say thank you to the city that has been the IEC's home since 1948.
The exposition opened on 16 May and is scheduled to run until 8 June.
Then it will be dismantled and shipped to Berlin for the 2006 General Meeting, and from there on to Singapore for centenary celebrations there.
Inaugurating the exposition in front of Swiss and Geneva officials and a group of 60 invitees, IEC President, Renzo Tani, said: " Geneva has been a very good home to us over the years".
"For that we wish to say thank you to the Geneva authorities and to the people of this city".
"Geneva offers the IEC many things, particularly outstanding infrastructure".
"The communication and transportation networks, the public education system, the social and health services_ in fact, all of the departments of the city and canton contribute to making this exactly the right place for the IEC to maintain its headquarters." SIG, the local utility company, partnered with the IEC to put on the exhibition, lending free space in the building on Pont de la Machine in Geneva and giving valuable technical support.
Guests of honour at the inauguration were: Geneva State Councillor Robert Cramer, Swiss Federal Office of Energy Director Walter Steinmann, Geneva City Council Representative Jacques Moret, SIG President Daniel Mouchet and United Nations Office at Geneva Director General Sergei Ordzhonikidze.
Concluding his speech, Tani said: "In the electric century 1906 to 2006 we have seen incredible technological change and the IEC has been part of it".
"What marvels await us all in the future, only today's youth can tell us, because they'll be the ones who will create that future".
"I believe it will be a world of wonders".
"The IEC is now setting out on its next 100 years and we'll be doing our part in that amazing world of the future".
"We expect to be celebrating our 200th anniversary together with Geneva, here in 2106.".
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