Mind and Hand - Table of Contents

May 2005
7 x 9, 801 pp., 80 illus.
$60.00/£44.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
0-262-19524-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-19524-9

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Mind and Hand
The Birth of MIT
Julius A. Stratton and Loretta H. Mannix
Foreword by Paul E. Gray

	Foreword Paul E. Gray Sample Chapter - Download PDF (53 KB)	ix

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (73 KB)	xiii

	Prologue Sample Chapter - Download PDF (56 KB)	xvii

	The Antecedents	1

1.	European Origins Sample Chapter - Download PDF (318 KB)	3

2.	Migration of a Heritage	21

3.	The Rise of Technical Education in America	31

	The Rogers Brothers and the Boston Scene	63

4.	A Family Affair	65

5.	Harvard	91

6.	The Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard	113

	The Founding of M I T	139

7.	Pre-Historic Annals of the Institute	141

8.	An Auxiliary to the Cause of Education	169

9.	Facts of the Founding Sample Chapter - Download PDF (1.00 MB)	189

	The Struggle to Get Under Way	225

10.	Persistent Perseverance	227

11.	The Land-Grant Act of 1862	251

12.	Harvard Again	277

13.	The Difficult Question of Money	295

14.	The Building	319

	The Society, the Museum, and the School	341

15.	The Society of Arts	343

16.	The Committee on Publication	379

17.	The Museum of Technology	393

18.	The School of Industrial Science	415

	A Voluminous Enterprise	439

19.	The School Opens	441

20.	The First Faculty	471

21.	The First Students	499

	The Early Curriculum and Methods of Teaching	531

22.	The First Six Courses	533

23.	A Curricular Innovation	559

24.	Methods of Teaching	577

	Epilogue	615

	Appendix 1 Committees and Officers of the Institute, 1860-1870	621

	Appendix 2 Society of Arts Communications, 1862-1870	625

	Notes	649

	Selected Sources	745

	Illustrations	761

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (331 KB)	765

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