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A man named William Rogers feels the need to estabish a new school in Boston.
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Legislature passes the charter of MIT, the official documents name is "Act to Incorporate the Massachusetts Institute of Technology”
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A man named Dr. Thomas Webb gives MIT volumes of US Patent Office and Smithsonian Institution Reports in order to help start the schools libary. The school now has over 2 million printed books.
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Professor William Ware proposes "An Outline of the Course of Instruction in Building and Architecture". This proposal now serves as the basses of all architecture classes thought in the USA
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MIT hires their first female employee to work at the Institute. Her name was Margaret Stinson her job was to oversee the supply room.
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MIT officially opens the school to its first day of classes
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Wares proposal for architecture classes goes though and architecture classes began being taught at MIT. These were the first classes of their kind in America.
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In 1873 Ellen Swallow was the first ever female to graduate from MIT.
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William Rogers, who started the school, dies while giving a speech at commencement.
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Albert Wells makes the first ever wind tunnel while at MIT. He used the schools ventilation system to make it.
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MITs first computer was built by Professor Bush. He called it the "Product Integraph"
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Professor Hottel creates the first ever solar house in the U.S. He called his invention the "Solar I".
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The frist digital computer at MIT is developed under the name "Project Whirlwind".
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The SAGE system was developed at the Lincoln Lab at MIT as an effort to creat a "semi automatic ground environment". While making the systems new break throughs were discoved. These new breakthoughs helped to develop what we consider the modern computer.
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The TX-0 was built in the Lincoln lab and was one of the first highspeed computer that also had a memory drive. This computer and its developments later were platforms for "hacker culture"
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MIT creats the MITR-1, a research nuclear reactor. The MITR-1 is the second largest research nuclear reactor in the U.S.
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NASA contracted MIT to help them design a new system to navigate and guide their spaceships. These systems were used for the Apollo space missions. -
MIT transmits the first TV picture by using a satellite. The transmission wasnt much, just the letters MIT, but it was the first time it had ever been done.
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MIT wanted to try to teach their students using computers, they started the Athena Project which used computers to help in learning.
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MIT celebrates 150 years of education.
