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Results

Voting results – The bars below show the total number of votes collected on each nominated item.

Click on any title to visit the nomination for that item.

721
Baker House Piano Drop
647
Hacking
572
Glass Lab
487
Brass Rat
437
IHTFP
435
Smoots on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge
410
Senior House Steer Roast
327
The Infinite Corridor
295
Jack Florey
292
Project Athena
291
Caltech Cannon
265
Kiva Systems Mobile Fulfillment Solution
262
MIT Glass Lab: Great Glass Pumpkin Patch
259
Harvard-Yale Football Game Hack
253
Orange Tours
230
Great Dome
201
Police Car Hack
188
Senior House Tire Swing
182
OpenCourseWare (OCW)
160
MIT Blackjack Card Counting Team
154
Professor Harold E. Edgerton
151
No sleep
148
6.001
144
Campus Tunnel System
142
Undergraduate research
142
Oliver R. Smoot, class of 1962
139
Baker House Purity Test
126
Building W07, Everett Moore Baker House
119
HowToGAMIT
119
Grateful Dead Concerts at MIT, 1970
119
WMBR/WTBS Radio Station
118
10-250
116
LSC
115
East vs. West Water War
112
Zork
108
2.070/2.007
105
Free food
102
Cow on Dome
101
Killian Court
101
Food trucks
100
Alcator Fusion Experiments
99
Mystery Hunt
97
Numbered buildings
96
Strobe Alley
96
Mr. Magnet
95
Building 20
94
The Big Screw Award
92
The Tech
91
Maxwell's Equations T-shirt
89
2.00B Toy Design
87
TIM the beaver
85
Toscanini's
85
VooDoo
82
Apollo Guidance Computer
80
East Campus Dragon Mural
79
Baker House Icicle
78
Kerberos
76
Charles River
75
Musical Theatre Guild's "Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition"
74
Daedalus Human Powered Aircraft
73
LlSP machine
72
MIThenge
72
Tomb of the Unknown Tool
72
Doc Edgerton's Lab Notebooks
71
Splash!
67
150 years of Calculating Devices
66
Swim Test
65
Greek Life at MIT
64
Slide rule
64
Third East Octagon
63
Muddy Charles Pub
63
Independent Activities Period (IAP)
62
Nobel Laureates
62
Wright Brothers Memorial Wind Tunnel
60
Athletics at MIT
59
8.012 Pset
58
NECCO Factory
58
Tech Dinghy
58
3 Million electron volt Van De Graff Accelerator
57
Lego Mindstorms
56
Professor Norbert Wiener
56
Spacewar!
56
Richard Stallman
55
Walter Lewin lectures online
54
Burton 3rd Bombers
53
Sport Death
52
Dollar Bill Mural (Cashier's Office)
52
Iron Man
51
Apollo Cockpit
50
Eliza/Doctor
50
Stroboscopic photography
49
Penicillin
49
Logarhythms
48
Edgerton Photomosaic
48
Van de Graaf Generator
48
Sailing Pavilion
47
Multics
43
MIT Model Railroad
43
Volkswagen on Building 10
42
Athena logo carving
41
Flying car
41
LOGO turtle
40
Edgerton Piddler
40
DNA Sequencer
39
Whirlwind Computer
39
F&T diner
38
Nerd Path
38
Chester Chu
37
The Great Sail ("La Grande Voile")
37
MIT Crew
34
Crossroads Irish Pub and Restaurant
34
Twenty Chimneys
34
Building W15, MIT Chapel
32
GIRs (General Institute Requirements)
32
Electric Car Race
31
VW Bug assembled in dorm room
31
Professor Gian-Carlo Rota
31
A Dorm Room
31
Student Loan Art Program
30
Commencement in the Great Court
30
50-340 (Walker Memorial)
30
MITERS - MIT Electronic Research Society
30
MIT Assassins' Guild
29
Tinker Toy Computer
29
Kresge Auditorium Model
29
MIT $100K and Global Startup Workshop
29
Red Jackets
29
Polaroid film
29
Experimental Study Group
28
R. Buckminster Fuller lecture
28
Simmons Hall
28
Skuffle
27
Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT
27
The Great Baker House Snow Hack
27
LEGO Beavers
27
Building 20 "Deactivated" Sticker
26
MIT Seal
26
MIT Visual Arts Program
25
SAAS Culture Show
25
Saferide
24
Ellen Swallow Richards' Laboratory
24
Kismet
24
Walker Memorial Dining
24
MIT Chorallaries
23
Ronald McNair, Ph.D. 1977
23
Smoot Plaque
23
Architectural models
23
Radar School
22
Katharine Dexter McCormick
22
Media Lab Construction
22
Pocket protectors
22
IBM Keypunch
22
Pluto
22
Sol LeWitt floor
22
Professor Philip Morrison
21
MIT Gospel Choir
21
Boston campus
21
Kendall Square Station Murals
21
George Eastman's Nose
20
Moon rock
20
Institute Professor Sheila E. Widnall
20
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
20
M-1 Rifle
20
Solar I House
19
Broad Institute
19
Plasma Luminescent Art
19
Technology Review
19
Water Fountain Hack
19
iPod
18
Professor Amar Bose
18
Tech Night at the Pops
18
Professor Denis Auroux
18
Hart Nautical Gallery
18
Construction of The Big Dome
18
Next House
18
"Spontaneous" Annual Tuition Riots
17
Waterfall Hack
17
MIT Press Logo
17
Clocky
17
Herreshoff Half Hulls
17
Open book exams
17
MIT Enterprise Forum
17
The Mathematical Theory of Communication
17
Team approach to problem-solving
16
Center for Cancer Research
16
Robot Hand
16
Black-Scholes option pricing formula
16
Twist of the Tool
16
Apollo Lunar Module Alignment Optical Telescope
16
3rd floor of Building 7, looking west
16
Media Lab Conductor's Jacket
15
Outdoor Ice Rink
15
Athena System Video
15
Ashdown House
15
Whirlwind I Core Memory
15
Men's Lightweight Crew
14
Research Laboratory for Electronics (RLE)
14
SPHERES Flight Experiment on ISS
14
Sale of Call Letters WTBS to Ted Turner
13
Vannevar Bush Photos
13
AI Lab Research Film
13
James Doolittle Photos
13
Subway trains squealing on curves
13
Professor Victor F. Weisskopf
13
Test Tube Menorah
13
William Barton Rogers letter
12
Side Scan Sonar
12
TANK, Team Speed Beer-Drinking
12
Bubble Machine (Frank Morgan)
11
Atlantis Photo
11
Coop Crates
11
1961-2 Undergraduate Bulletin
11
BioSuit
11
Edgerton Sonargraph
11
Demonstration slide rule
11
A-1B Gun Bomb Rocket Sight
11
Numbered courses
11
Professor Noam Chomsky
10
Plaster cast of UMOC
10
Black Mariah
10
Bowling Alley in Walker Memorial
10
Daniel Chester French
10
Broomstick Racing on Conner 3
10
Transparent Horizons
10
Springfield Oval Toilet Paper
9
Cavity Magnetron
9
Urchin Alarm
9
Building 66, Landau Building
9
8.01 examples: elephants and sand
9
Ultralight Track Bicycle
9
Battering ram
9
Building W20, Julius A. Stratton Student Center
9
Bunsen Burners
9
Thursday: Consumer Guide to Men at MIT
9
Carbon Dioxide Laser for Tunneling
9
Viral battery
8
Sketchpad
8
Killian Columns
8
Bosworth drawings
8
MIT Punchcard
8
Hayden Library Globe
8
The Architecture Machine
8
SAGE
8
Professor Melvin King
8
Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture
8
Student Art Association (SAA)
7
Norbert Wiener's prologue to "R.U.R."
7
Heathkit
7
Professor Hans Muller
7
Chemical Engineering Practice Schools
7
Professor Ernst Guillemin
7
Charlie the Tech Tailor
7
Professor Muriel Cooper
7
Typewriters
7
Civil Engineering Computer Lab
7
Green computation paper
7
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)
7
Project Whirlwind Model
7
The Talking Book by Literacy Bridge
7
Dr. Peter Dourmashkin
7
Professor Woodie C. Flowers
7
Nuclear Reactor
6
Stephen Benton Hologram
6
MIT Department of Chemical Engineering
6
Saturday classes
6
Tech Show
6
Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr.
6
Green COOP book bag
6
Crickets
6
Hybrid Images
6
Wilbur Machine
6
Purple Shaft
6
William Barton Rogers Photo
6
MIT NAVY V-12 Unit
6
Minsky Arm
6
Freshman Beanies
6
Graduate Student Council
6
Magic Light Pen
6
Department of Urban Studies and Planning history display
6
Jerome B. Weisner Film
6
Rush
6
J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Dope Smoke
5
Sidescan Sonar
5
ABI 3730 sequencer
5
H. M. (Henry Molaison)
5
Slide rule engraving
5
Differential Analyzer Model
5
Red and Gray scarf
5
Professor Leon Trilling
5
President Hockfield's remarks on energy research at the White House
5
SmartInsulin
5
Hyperinstruments
5
Ellen (Swallow) Richard's Normal Chlorine Map
5
Metafield Maze
5
Twentieth Century Architecture
5
APX-15 X-band radar
5
John Corley
5
The Human Side of Enterprise
5
Teradyne
5
The Lurking Horror
4
Westgate West
4
Professor Jerome Hunsaker, class of 1912
4
Synchrotron Operator
4
Building 22
4
MIT Licensing Office Director Lita Nelsen
4
MIT Banjo Club Photos
4
5:15 Club
4
Bathythermograph
4
Teletype
4
Nancy Burson's morphed faces (composites)
4
Endgame Chess Playing Computer
4
MIT World
4
Minority Education
4
Ballroom Dance Club
4
CTSS
4
Robert Taylor
4
MIT Entrepreneurs Club (E-Club)
3
Theseus
3
Whitehead Institute lobby
3
MIT persona
3
Rocket Racing League
3
Jacqueline Casey
3
Building W04, Stanley McCormick Hall
3
The Impact of Innovation Bank of Boston study 1997
3
Bathythermograph
3
Monsanto House of the Future
3
Drafting set
3
Outing Club (MITOC)
2
Lan Jen Chu
2
Bucentaur
2
Autom
2
Lacrosse
2
Association of Taiwanese Students
2
LabCAST
2
Electrical Engineering Test Meter
2
Professor Arthur Von Hippel
2
Chris Janney's "HeartBeat" and "SoundStair"
2
Increased Funding for Technology and Research
2
The Benchmark
2
Portable Light
2
Rumford Kitchen
2
Professor Yuk Wing Lee
2
Cape Cod Radar Image
2
Professor Jeremy Wolfe
2
Nestler Cylindrical Slide Rule
2
Professor Anthony P. French
2
Magic-eye doors of Building 7
2
Blizzard of '78
1
Building 12
1
Dr. Ernst Hauser
1
Technocross
1
Mid-Century Convocation
1
Analytic Geometry and Calculus
1
Egbert Award
1
The Chemical Maid
1
MIT White
1
Henry Singleton
1
Sidewalk Hack
1
Henry Warren, class of 1894
1
Robert Taylor Drawings
1
Interview With John Corley
1
Professor Alan Michaels '44
1
Radar Dish from Building 6 roof
1
Laya Wiesner
1
Associated Tutors
1
Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC)
1
Speed of the Earth light/time installation by Mitch Benoff
1
Goat heads on campus
0
Beacon of Progress
0
Strike Fist
0
Febe Star Tracker
0
Charter Members of Lambda Upsilon Chapter AKA
0
MIT Agenda Mug
0
Technique 1985
0
Instant Numbers
0
Recountings: Conversations with MIT Mathematicians
0
John F. Andrew Mansion
0
Prof XIE Shi De
0
Ruge - de Forest wire resistance strain gauge SR4
0
Neurochemical Compartmentalization of the Striatum
0
Faculty Composers
0
Tech Show 1955, Tyde's Crossinge
0
Professor Samuel C. Collins
0
ENTOVATION Network
0
Microsystems Technology Laboratories
0
All Tech Sing
0
Venture Mentoring Service
0
Technology & The Dream
0
Tech Squares
0
Bill Wolf
0
Technique
0
Urolus Cup
0
Tsok Kai Tse and Ching Yu Wen
0
Mural outside Phillip Sharp's office
0
Symbolics Inc. stock certificate
0
Professor John Dower
0
Special Interest Group in Urban Settlements (SIGUS)
0
Tsien Hsue-shen
0
Marion Mahony Griffin
0
Technicolor
0
Lucian Pye
0
Identifying the Oncogene