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Mind and Hand : The Birth of MIT.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (802 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262284486
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mind and HandDDC classification:
  • 378.744/4
LOC classification:
  • T171.M428S77 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 European Origins -- 2 Migration of a Heritage -- 3 The Rise of Technical Education in America -- 4 A Family Affair -- 5 Harvard -- 6 The Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard -- 7 Pre-Historic Annals of the Institute -- 8 An Auxiliary to the Cause of Education -- 9 Facts of the Founding -- 10 Persistance Perseverance -- 11 The Land-Grant Act of 1862 -- 12 Harvard Again -- 13 The Difficult Question of Money -- 14 The Building -- 15 The Society of Arts -- 16 The Committee on Publication -- 17 The Museum of Technology -- 18 The School of Industrial Science -- 19 The School Opens -- 20 The First Faculty -- 21 The First Students -- 22 The First Six Courses -- 23 A Curricular Innovation -- 24 Methods Of Teaching -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected Sources -- Illustrations -- Index.
Summary: The intellectual heritage of MIT: an account of "the flow of ideas" about science and education that shaped the Institute as it emerged and that inspires it today.
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Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Prologue -- 1 European Origins -- 2 Migration of a Heritage -- 3 The Rise of Technical Education in America -- 4 A Family Affair -- 5 Harvard -- 6 The Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard -- 7 Pre-Historic Annals of the Institute -- 8 An Auxiliary to the Cause of Education -- 9 Facts of the Founding -- 10 Persistance Perseverance -- 11 The Land-Grant Act of 1862 -- 12 Harvard Again -- 13 The Difficult Question of Money -- 14 The Building -- 15 The Society of Arts -- 16 The Committee on Publication -- 17 The Museum of Technology -- 18 The School of Industrial Science -- 19 The School Opens -- 20 The First Faculty -- 21 The First Students -- 22 The First Six Courses -- 23 A Curricular Innovation -- 24 Methods Of Teaching -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Selected Sources -- Illustrations -- Index.

The intellectual heritage of MIT: an account of "the flow of ideas" about science and education that shaped the Institute as it emerged and that inspires it today.

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