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A Progress Studies History of Early MIT—Part 2: An Industrial Research Powerhouse – 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 Part 1 before this piece for optimal pleasure. As was true of the last piece, 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. Executive Summary: In the early 1900s, MIT began to pursue research in a more focused way. Since MIT’s mission was to serve industry, the Institute pursued extremely applied research and quickly became an industrial research powerhouse. MIT proved its researchers were extremely effective, working on applied problems such as cleaning city water sources, iron and steel corrosion, and speech clarity in telephone transmission. The Institute, in the post-World War I era, even implemented a program called the Technology Plan, which facilitated hundreds of contacts at a time with different companie

August 1, 2022 A Progress Studies History of Early MIT—Part 2: An Industrial Research Powerhouse 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 Part 1 before this piece for optimal pleasure. As was true of the last piece, 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 . MIT’s then-new Cambridge campus, completed in 1916 Executive Summary: In the early 1

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