view latest additions volume 7 | number 48 | June 24, 2008
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April 1, 2008
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"I can draw anything if you let me put scaffolding around it, ladders, cranes. I'm not afraid of it. As soon as I have to take those things away, it's a whole new ball game."

—David Macaulay

The Way David Macaulay Works: Finding Ideas, Making Books and Visualizing Our World

SPEAKER:
David Macaulay
Author, Illustrator
2006 MacArthur Fellow

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School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences


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March 13, 2008
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"The core of the Boston subway system (was) built between 1895 and 1915. That's a huge amount of subway construction with basically hand labor, horses and human beings' muscles working very hard, a few steam shovels....(It's a) much bigger deal than the Big Dig, if you correct for inflation."

—Fred Salvucci

Recent History of Boston Transportation

SPEAKER:
Frederick P. Salvucci '61, SM '62
Senior Lecturer, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT

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Materials Processing Center


In The Pipeline The School of Engineering and the School of Science present

A. Neil Pappalardo SB EE '64
Chairman and CEO Meditech

Reflections on an MIT Education




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