
Countless Connecting Threads
MIT's History Revealed Through Its Most Evocative Objects
Deborah G. Douglas(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 7. June 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
231 pages
978-0-262-52545-9 (ISBN)
Description
Inspired by an exhibition of 150 objects created by the MIT Museum to mark MIT's sesquicentennial, this lavishly illustrated volume is a unique collection of visual and written meditations about the making and meaning of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The story of MIT is more than a simple tale of a founder's vision. It is greater than the sum of all the stories that have been or are yet to be told by the hundreds of thousands who have a direct personal connection with the Institute. Yet, with the assistance of the collective intelligence of the MIT community, the Museum was able to capture some of those "countless connecting threads"-from a towering module for the first real-time digital computer to the famous Baker House Piano Drop. Part history, part catalog, part souvenir, Countless Connecting Threads invites readers to (re)discover, through some of the Institute's most evocative objects, the essence of the vast and varied tapestry that is MIT.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
450 farbige Abbildungen, 150 s/w Abbildungen
450 color illus., 150 b&w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-52545-9 (9780262525459)
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Deborah G. Douglas
Countless Connecting Threads
MIT's History Revealed Through Its Most Evocative Objects
Book
06/2013
MIT Press
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