The Maclaurin buildings : a history of MIT's Main Campus and the people who built it

In 1916, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology relocated from its Boston Tech campus to its newly built facilities in Cambridge. During the construction of the New Technology in the May of 1915, MIT president Richard Maclaurin decided to have the names of famous scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers engraved on ten faces of the square pavilions that capped each of the buildings. In the end, 115 names were chosen, and they remain on the MIT buildings to this day. This thesis explores how Maclaurin came to choose the men whose names now adorn the MIT rooftops. It also explains who each of these individuals was and how they came to so greatly influence their respective fields.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Christoff, David C

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Gareth McKinley.

• Mechanical Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92667

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/92667