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A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 3: The end of the beginning – Good Science Project

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Each piece in the MIT series can stand alone for the most part, but I’ve written them in such a way that they build off each other. So, I’d recommend reading Parts 1 and 2 before this piece for optimal pleasure. As was true of the last two pieces, the majority of the MIT-related information in this piece comes from Philip Alexander’s fantastic work of history called A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT. The first piece in the MIT series covered the early decades of MIT and its hands-on approach to educating engineers who would disproportionately end up in leading roles as builders in America’s era of peak growth. The second piece of the MIT series detailed early MIT’s radically applied approach to facilitating research that served industry, going as far as to fund certain departments almost entirely through industry contracts. In this piece, the last in the early MIT series (for now at least), I’ll explain the rationale behind MIT’s shift towards more pure research by its facult

August 31, 2022 A Progress Studies History of Early MIT — Part 3: The end of the beginning by Eric Gilliam Each piece in the MIT series can stand alone for the most part, but I’ve written them in such a way that they build off each other. So, I’d recommend reading Parts 1 and 2 before this piece for optimal pleasure. As was true of the last two pieces, the majority of the MIT-related information in this piece comes from Philip Alexander’s fantastic work of history called A Widening Sphere: Evolving Cultures at MIT . Postcard photo of MIT ca. 1930–1945 The first piece in the MIT series covered

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