One of MIT's Best-Kept Secrets Lives in the Institute's Basement
May 04, 2024
May 04, 2024
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 4 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
By Johnathon Horn, Division of Student Life
When MIT's Walker Memorial (Building 50) was constructed in 1916, it was among the first buildings located on the Institute's then-new Cambridge campus. At the time, national headlines would have heralded Gideon Sundback's invention of the modern zipper, the first transcontinental phone call by Alexander Grah . . .
By Johnathon Horn, Division of Student Life
When MIT's Walker Memorial (Building 50) was constructed in 1916, it was among the first buildings located on the Institute's then-new Cambridge campus. At the time, national headlines would have heralded Gideon Sundback's invention of the modern zipper, the first transcontinental phone call by Alexander Grah . . .