| Year | Event |
| 1884 | Code for the Conduct of Trials of Steam Boilers — first Performance Test Code |
| 1886-87 | Standard for the Diameter and Overall Dimensions of Pipe and Its Threaded Ends |
| 1889-91 | Committee for the creation of a federal commission to recommend standards and a bureau for their maintenance |
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| 1890 | Establishment of a Committee on Standard Methods of Testing Locomotives |
| 1891-92 | Method of Conducting Duty Trials of Pumping Engines |
| 1892 | Committee formed to prepare a proposed Standard for Divergences in Flange Diameter |
| 1893 | Standard Method of Conducting Efficiency Tests of Locomotives |
| 1899 | Standard for Divergences in Flange Diameters |
| 1899 | Establishment of a Committee on Standards for Direct-Connected Generating Sets |
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| 1901-02 | Standard for Pipe Unions |
| 1901-02 | Proposed Standard for Machine Screw Thread Sizes |
| 1901 | Standard for Direct-Connected Generating Sets |
| 1905 | Standard Proportions for Machine Screws |
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| 1911 |
Establishment of a committee to propose a Boiler Code |
| 1913 | New Committee to revise the Boiler Code |
| 1914-15 | First publication of the Boiler Code |
| 1915 | Standards for Specifications and Construction of Boilers and Other Containing Vessels in Which High Pressure is Contained |
| 1915 | Standards for Engineering Drawings |
| 1916 | Code of Safety Standards for Cranes |
| 1917 | Code of Safety Standards for Industrial Ladders |
| 1918 | American Engineering Standards Committee (later to be known as ANSI) formed |
| 1919 | Standards of Carburetor Performance |
| 1919 | Formulation of Committee on Power Test Codes |
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| 1921 | First elevator code issued |
| 1922 | Code for Displacement Compressors and Blowers |
| 1922 | Test Code for Hydraulic Power plants and Their Equipment |
| 1923 | Test Code for Locomotives (preliminary) |
| 1923 | Test Code for Internal Combustion Engines |
| 1924 | ASME Codes for Unfired Pressure Vessels |
| 1925 | ASME publishes two American Engineers Standards Committee Standards — Machinery Shafting and Transmission Shafting |
| 1926 | Proposed Standard for Spur Gear Tooth Form |
| 1926 | Tentative American Standard for Steel Pipe Flanges and Flange Fittings |
| 1927 | Tentative Standards for Round Unslotted Head Bolts |
| 1928 | Committee for Standard for Integrally Forged Flanges for Hydroelectric Units |
| 1928 | American National Standards Committee reorganized as the American Standards Association (known as the American National Standards Institute, ANSI, since 1969) |
| 1929 | Test Code for Liquid Fuels |
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| 1930 | Test Code of Complete Steam-Electric Power Plants |
| 1931 | Proposed ASME Standard for Integrally Forged Flanges for Hydroelectric Units |
| 1931 | American Standard Safety Code for Elevators, second revision |
| 1933 | New Standards for Gear Materials and Blanks, Shafting and Stock Keys |
| 1939 | Turbine Generator Standards |
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| 1946 | Interpretations of Safety Codes for Elevators |
| 1946 | Modifications Approved for Safety Code for Elevators |
| 1947 | International Organization for Standardization (ISO) formed |
| 1947 | ISO adopts first standard — screw threads (ASME) |
| 1948 | The American Standards Association (now ANSI) incorporates |
| 1949 | ASME and the American Public Health Association call for Unified National Plumbing Code (five different codes currently exist) |
| 1949 | Proposed Revision to Safety Code for Elevators |
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| 1956 | Committee established for ASME Pressure Vessel Code for Nuclear Age |
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| 1963 | Proposed Section III (Nuclear Power) of ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Committee |
| 1968 | Proposed Performance Test Code for Nuclear Reactor Fuel |
| 1969 | First piping shipped that is certified by company accredited under the Nuclear Power Piping Code |
| 1969 | ISO adopts uniform, worldwide rating point for gas turbines using ASME?s Gas Turbine Performance Test Code |
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| 1972 | ASME expanded its accreditation program from North America to rest of world |
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| 1983 | ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code published in both conventional and metric units |
| 1986 | ASME began accreditation programs for elevator inspector certification institutes |
| 1989 | Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code published on CD-ROM |
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| 1991 | ASME completed criteria and validated examinations for certifying resource facility operators |
| 1993 | ASME is recognized by national and international certifiers as an ISO 9000 registrar |
| 1996 | ASME established certification programs for operators of resource recovery facilities and medical hazardous waste incinerators |