Category: From the Vault
“Victory and Science” (1945)
2.94K Views0 Comments0 Likes
This vintage silent film footage shows a range of World War II ordnance developed at MIT, on display at the campus on November 10-12, 1945. More than 75,000 people attended the event, giving the Boston-area public its...
MIT’s Building 20: The Magical Incubator (1998)
2.99K Views0 Comments0 Likes
MIT's Building 20, built in 1943, was called the "Magical Incubator" because over the course of its long history it housed a range of laboratories involved in some of the most important and ground-breaking development...
Technology Day 1995 — “War, Technology, Peace and Change”
3.85K Views0 Comments0 Likes
MIT's 1995 Technology Day takes place on June 16, 1995 on the theme "War, Technology, Peace and Change." A fly-by of six vintage World War II airplanes led by a B-25, intended as a tribute to the sacrifices of MIT c...
Testing Galaxy Formation Models at the Small Scales, Dr. Simona Vegetti
5.23K Views0 Comments0 Likes
The 11th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 18, 2012 The distribution of masses of dwarf satellite galaxies that are observed around Local Group galaxies differs substantially from simulations ba...
17th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration (1991)
3.38K Views0 Comments1 Likes
The Seventeenth Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration takes place January 18, 1991, and features Dr. Benjamin Hooks as keynote speaker. Four students also present a youth perspective on the significance of t...
“Automatically Programmed Tools” (1959) — Science Reporter TV Series
3.62K Views0 Comments1 Likes
In this 1959 MIT Science Reporter television program, researchers John Francis Reintjes and Douglas Taylor Ross present the APT project, a novel system for the computerization of numerical control being developed at t...
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Dr. Paul Chesler
3.82K Views0 Comments0 Likes
9th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium May 14, 2010 Applied String Theory: From Gravitational Collapse to Heavy Ion Collisions Dr. Paul Chesler, 2009-12 Fellow (Nuclear & Particle Theory) A remar...
See It Now: Jay W. Forrester and the WHIRLWIND Computer (1951)
2.44K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Jay W. Forrester talks about his work on the WHIRLWIND Project, during an interview with Edward R. Murrow for CBS News on Dec. 16, 1951.
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics: Introductory Remarks with Edmund Bertschinger
3.40K Views0 Comments0 Likes
Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics 10th Anniversary Celebration: October 8, 2010 Edmund Bertschinger, Head, Department of Physics
What Happens at the End of Inflation?, Dr. Mustafa Amin
4.69K Views0 Comments0 Likes
The 10th Annual Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium: May 13, 2011 Dr. Mustafa Amin, 2008--2011 Pappalardo Fellow (Theoretical Astrophysics) Inflation, a period of accelerated expansion in the very early Unive...
