An alumnus from the class of 1952 nominates the "many drafting instruments for architects -- replaced by computer drafting."

An MIT staff member nominates the Wilbur Machine, "A mechanical calculator with 13,000 parts, weighing a half ton and about the size of a small car. MIT ...

An alumnus of the class of 1994 writes, "Nancy Burson was a Fellow at CAVS and an artist-in-residence at MIT in the late 1970's/early 1980s when she invented ...

A professor at the MIT Media Lab writes, "Developed by Mitchell Resnick, crickets put computing on objects, a paradigm ...

A professor at the MIT Media Lab nominates "stand-alone LISP machines, the building blocks of early ...

An alumnus of the class of 1967 nominates the classic computer game Zork, written at MIT's Lab for Computer ...

A current faculty member nominates "The wood carving with the Project Athena emblem that is now hanging in one of the Athena ...

An former MIT affiliate from the Dibner Institute writes, "The Whirlwind computer, the first computer that operated in real time with innovations in core ...

A group of alumni at an Alumni Association event nominated "instant numbers" -- the debris left over from punching out holes on punch cards. These were ...

An alumnus of the class of 1966 nominates the teletype. Shown here is an ASR-33 type; image by Dominic ...