From the Archives

The People ◽

History Of ◽

From the beginning, William Barton Rogers, the founder and first President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, included plans for an industrial technology museum in his concept of the Institute. This museum was to have been a cross between our modern exhibit museums and simple glass cases throughout the Institute displaying sample materials and machinery for use in classroom instruction. The following three excerpts selected from the William Barton Rogers Collection in the Institute Archives show how this idea pervaded the legislation and plans enabling establishment of MIT. Over the next century, numerous attempts were made to fulfill Rogers’ vision of an educational museum. Finally, in 1971, the MIT Museum was founded to provide a visual reminder, through its programs and exhibits, of the people and research that comprise the history of MIT.

Slava Gerovitch. From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. 383pp. Cloth $40.00.

History of Education Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0018268000049013 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 670-671

Author(s):

LMH

Keyword(s):

Massachusetts Institute ◽

History Of ◽

AZn: A History of the American Zinc Company. By James D. Norris. (Madison: State Historical Societyof Wisconsin. 1968. Pp. xii, 244. $5.95.), The U. S. Machine Tool Industry from 1900 to 1950. By Harless D. Wagoner. (Cambridge, Mass.: M.i.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1968. Pp. xiv, 421. $15.00.) and Climb to Greatness: The American Aircraft Industry, 1920–1960. By John B. Rae. (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1968.Pp. xii, 280. $12.00.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/75.1.226 ◽

1969 ◽

Keyword(s):

Machine Tool ◽

Aircraft Industry ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Machine Tool Industry ◽

History Of ◽

Financial History of the United States. By Davis Rich Dewey, Ph.D., Professor of Economics and Statistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ American Citizen Series.] ( London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Company. 1903. Pp. xxxvii, 530.)

The American Historical Review ◽

10.1086/ahr/9.1.166 ◽

1903 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

New York ◽

The United States ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Financial History ◽

American Citizen ◽

History Of ◽

The early history of EEG data-processing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts General Hospital

International Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1016/s0167-8760(97)00781-2 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 26 (1-3) ◽

pp. 443-454 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

J.S Barlow

Keyword(s):

Data Processing ◽

General Hospital ◽

Massachusetts General Hospital ◽

Early History ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Eeg Data ◽

History Of ◽

Chromosome banding in cultured cells transformed by polyoma virus

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100129036 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 45 ◽

pp. 950-951

Author(s):

H. M. Mazzone

Keyword(s):

Chromosome Banding ◽

Cultured Cells ◽

Present Report ◽

Polyoma Virus ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Banding Patterns ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

History Of ◽

Chromosome banding procedures commonly employ treatment steps in order to visualize the bands. In various cases, band-positive regions of chromosomes are observed after the latter are exposed to, e.g., acids, bases, salts, heat, or enzymes. Recently, mouse chromosomes treated with the antibiotic actinomysin D and the dye acridine orange demonstrated high resolution G-banding patterns by light microscopy. However, occasionally, banding can be produced with little or no treatment of the chromosomes. The present report describes the presence of bands in chromosomes of cultured cells whereby no treatment steps, as noted above, were employed. It is interesting that the history of the cells included their transformation by polyoma virus.Maintenance of virus-transformed Syrian hamster cell lines and their examination in the transmission electron microscope (TEM) was done in the Department of Biology of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

New Partnerships at MIT

Industry and Higher Education ◽

10.1177/095042229100500307 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 5 (3) ◽

pp. 165-167

Author(s):

Thomas R. Moebus

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Form And Function ◽

History Of ◽

Institute Of Technology ◽

And Function

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long history of innovation in its relationships with industry. The form and function of its Industrial Liaison Program were reported in an earlier issue of Industry and Higher Education. This article explores why companies build relationships with universities, and how they value these programmes and activities. The author also describes two important programmes underway at MIT to craft new partnerships with US industry.

Strategy and Structure: Chapters in the History of Industrial Enterprise. By Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Cambridge: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1962. Pp. xiv, 463. $10.00.

The Journal of Economic History ◽

10.1017/s0022050700104176 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 348-349

Author(s):

John H. Habakkuk

Keyword(s):

Industrial Enterprise ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

History Of ◽

Strategy And Structure ◽

History of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England, 1903-1953

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.46.5.0333 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 46 (5) ◽

pp. 333-336

Author(s):

William R. Ransom

Keyword(s):

Secondary Schools ◽

New England ◽

Harvard University ◽

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Wellesley College ◽

History Of ◽

The Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England was first called together by the superintendent of schools in Boston, E. P. Seaver, in 1903. A committee consisting of professors from Harvard University, Wellesley College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and five teachers in secondary schools announced a meeting to be held in the Boston Latin School on April 18, 1903. By a singular chance that date came again on a Saturday fifty years later, when the semicentennial of the Association was celebrated by a dinner, a history, and a festspiel.

Book Reviews

Journal of Economic Literature ◽

10.1257/jel.49.1.129.r14 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 49 (1) ◽

pp. 164-168

Keyword(s):

Massachusetts Institute ◽

Near Eastern ◽

Modern Times ◽

The World ◽

Industrial Performance ◽

History Of ◽

Ancient Mesopotamia ◽

Michael Bikard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER reviews “The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times” edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins, “Eighteen papers examine the history of entrepreneurship throughout the world since antiquity. Papers discuss global enterprise and industrial performance--an overview; entrepreneurs--from the Near Eastern takeoff to the Roman collapse; Neo-Babylonian entrepreneurs; the scale of entrepreneurship in Middle….”