MIT 150
150 fascinating, fun, important, interesting, lifesaving, life-altering, bizarre and bold ways that MIT has made a differenceGlobe Staff Writers Sam Allis, Hiawatha Bray, Scott Helman, And Carolyn Johnson, And Globe Contributors Scott Kirsner, Karen Weintraub, And Michael Blanding / May 15, 2011
Some were invented at MIT. Others were simply inspired by time spent at MIT. But all of them (well, maybe not #150) have had a profound impact, in one way or another, on society, culture, politics, economics, transportation, health, science, and, oh yes, technology. In the 150 years since the Commonwealth approved a charter by William Barton Rogers to incorporate the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Society of Natural History" (the Civil War delayed its first classes until 1865), MIT has established itself as the place where great ideas are born.
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