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• in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD (pictured) software?
• in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?
• pioneering research on time-temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented?
• the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
• after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
• David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?
• George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council of Everett, Massachusetts, in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create individualized fliers for each voter?
• Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times?
• Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?
• William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
• Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?