The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Its mission and culture are guided by an emphasis on teaching and research grounded in practical applications of science and technology. MIT is organized into five schools and one college, containing thirty-four academic departments and fifty-three interdisciplinary laboratories, centers and programsMIT Facts 2006: Academic Schools and Departments, Divisions & Sections URL accessed on May 11,2006 . Founded in 1861 by William Barton Rogers, MIT has contributed to defense research during World War II and the early decades of the Cold War as a federally funded research and development center. The Institute has played a key role in developing the electronic digital computerSee Whirlwind (computer), Magnetic core memory, and Apollo guidance computer, the inertial navigation systems used in missiles and spacecraft, and biomedical engineering.

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In 1861, Massachusetts approved a charter for the incorporation of the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Society of Natural History," submitted by William Barton Rogers, a natural scientist. Rogers saw this as a first step toward establishing a new kind of independent educational institution relevant to an industrializing America. With the charter approved, Rogers began raising funds, developing a curriculum and looking for a suitable location. His efforts were hampered by the Civil War, and as a result its first classes were held in rented space at the Mercantile Building in downtown Boston in 1865.Andrews, Elizabeth, Nora Murphy, and Tom Rosko(2004), William Barton Rogers: MIT's Visionary Founder (Charter, laboratory instruction, first classes in Mercantile building).

Construction on the first MIT building was completed in Boston's Back Bay in 1866. In the following years, the Institute taught sciences and engineering and became financially troubled. Some people wanted it to merge with Harvard University which was wealthier and did not focus as strongly on science compared to the liberal arts. Around 1900, a merger with Harvard was proposed, but was cancelled after protests from MIT's alumni. In 1914, a merger of MIT and Harvard's Applied Science departments was actually announced."Tech Alumni Holds Reunion. Record attendence, novel features. Cooperative plan with Harvard announced by Pres. Maclaurin. Gov. Walsh Brings Best Wishes of the State." Boston Daily Globe, Jan. 11, 1914, p. 117. Maclaurin quoted: "in future Harvard agrees to carry out all its work in engineering and mining in the buildings of Technology under the executive control of the president of Technology, and, what is of the first importance, to commit all instruction and the laying down of all courses to the faculty of Technology, after that faculty has been enlarged and strengthened by the addition to its existing members of men of eminence from Harvard's Graduate School of Applied Science." The merger was to affect all Harvard courses in applied science and was to begin "when the Institute will occupy its splendid new buildings in Cambridge.""Harvard-Tech Merger. Duplication of Work to be Avoided in Future. Instructors Who WIll Hereafter be Members of Both Faculties." Boston Daily Globe, January 25, 1914, p. 47

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