2026-09-21T07:59:24Zhttps://dspace.mit.edu/server/oai/requestoai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/926672022-01-13T07:54:05Zcom_1721.1_7582com_1721.1_7581col_1721.1_131024
Gareth McKinley.
Christoff, David C
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
2015-01-05T20:03:53Z
2015-01-05T20:03:53Z
2014
2014
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92667
898188652
Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2014.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-183).
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.
by David C. Christoff.
S.B.
183 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mechanical Engineering.
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