From: Craig Presson (dhr@iname.com)
Date: Thu Jan 29 1998 - 01:39:25 MST
On 29 Jan 98 at 6:10, John K Clark <johnkc@well.com> wrote:
[...]
> A lot of good work comes from private universities. MIT was started in
> 1845 by Erastus Bigelow, using the vast fortune he made in the power
> loom manufacturing business. [...]
MIT was founded in 1865 by Willam Barton Rogers. Erastus Bigelow was
on the original chartering commission (OK, he may well have been the
main official sugardaddy, I haven't seen the list of subscribers, but
it was Rogers who got his name in monumental capitals on the Dome).
"In 1861 he was appointed member of a 21 man commission which
eventually established Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erastus
B. Bigelow died 6 Dec 1879."
(http://www.cris.com/~dbigel1/Bigelow_Carpet.html)
-- dhr@iname.com (Freeman Craig Presson)
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