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Plan of an Institute of Technology
Prepared by William Barton Rogers. This plan, for the MIT Institute, proposed a 3 part institution which focused on a Society of Arts, a Museum of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science. -
MIT awarded Back Bay Property
The Massachusetts legislature awards the Black Bay property lot to MIT. William G Preston designs 3 buildings for the site: The Natural History Society Building and two MIT buildings. -
First classes of MIT
First classes were held in Boston in the Mercantile Building. -
Architecture Classes
Nation's first architecture classes are offered at MIT. -
Physics Laboratory
Professor Edward C Pickering start the first physics laboratory at MIT -
Back Bay Expansion
The Massachusetts Legislature approves MIT's application for expanding the Back Bay. -
School of Mechanic Arts
The MIT Corporation establishes a School of Mechanic Arts to teach instruction for Engineers and Machinists. -
Electrical Engineering Curriculum
Within the Department of Physics, MIT establishes the nation's first electrical engineering curriculum. The Department of Electrical Engineering would be later founded in 1902. -
Engineering Building and Chemical Engineering
the Engineering Building housed the departments of Mechanical and Civil Engineering. In the same year, MIT became the first University in the nation to offer a four year curriculum on Chemical Engineering, within the Department of Chemistry. Later in 1920 Chemical Engineering became its own department. -
Enrollment reaches 1000
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Department of Electrical Engineering is Established
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Tech Union
The first gathering place of students, the Tech Union, used two rooms above the Mechanical Laboratories building. Later the union grew and expanded in 1908. -
TX-0 Computer
The transistorized experimental computer 0 is designed, constructed, and operated in the Lincoln Laboratory. It's purpose was to evaluate the use of transistor circuitry and large-scale magnetic-core memory using a high-speed computer. This computer was among the first "almost-all-solid-state" machine. -
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an independent program. Later, in 2003, the laboratory of Computer Science and the AI laboratory will merge into one laboratory. -
Police Car Hack
Students create one of the most famous "hacks". students placed a mock MI Campus Police car on top of the dome. The car was completed with flashing lights, number "pi", pair of fuzzy dice, license number "IHTFP", and a MIT Campus Police parking ticket. -
CSAIL
The laboratory which is a merge of the Computer Science lab and the Artificial Intelligence laboratory.