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Introduction,
Course Overview, What is Technology?
America
in 1850: The Age of Transformation
William
Barton Rogers & The Foundational Years, 1861-1896
Harvard,
MIT, and Building a New Campus
MIT
and the Corporate World in the Age of Big Business, 1890-1930
World
War I, the 1920s, and the 1930s
Symposium: Leaders in Science and Engineering: The Women of MIT
Class
Meets at MIT Museum
Symposium: Computation and the Transformation of Practically Everything
Special
Event: The Next Century Convocation
World
War II and the Aftermath
Sputnik
and the Cold War
Aerospace
and Computing in the 1960s, Lab Life in the 1970s, The Past Three Decades
This course examines the history of MIT through the lens of the broader history of science and technology, and vice versa. The course covers the founding of MIT in 1861 and goes through the present, including such topics as William Barton Rogers, educational philosophy, biographies of MIT students and professors, intellectual and organizational development, the role of science, changing laboratories and practices, and MIT's relationship with Boston, the federal government, and industry. Assignments include short papers, presentations, and final paper. A number of classes are concurrent with the MIT150 Symposia.
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