
First female Institute Professor, Mildred Dresselhaus
Mildred Dresselhaus becomes the first woman to be appointed Institute professor and the first female tenured professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering.
Mildred Dresselhaus becomes the first woman to be appointed Institute professor and the first female tenured professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering.
Radar-based lunar studies are performed by Lincoln Laboratory. The use of radar to map the surface of the moon becomes possible when the radar beam is made small...
In efforts to assist those affected by the Great Depression, MIT offers free courses to unemployed engineers and architects and creates jobs for 41 Institute graduates in need of work.
The beaver is selected as the official MIT mascot, chosen over the kangaroo and the elephant as the most appropriate mascot due to its "engineering and mechanical skill and habits of industry."
Thomas A. Edison presents MIT with a dynamo and 150 lamps for use in teaching electrical engineering.
MIT holds its first open house in more than 30 years. Approximately 20,000 people descend on campus for "Under the Dome," where visitors of all ages got an up-close...
The Media Lab is founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote the design and invention of technologies to transform everyday life.
MIT's Jerome Lettvin, a professor in the departments of Biology and Electrical Engineering, debates psychedelic guru and...
Alexander Graham Bell presents one of the first demonstrations of the telephone to the Society of the Arts at MIT.