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William Barton Rogers founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the institution was signed into law on the 10th of April 1861. Rogers proposed the school in 1859 to the Massachusetts General Court as a radical new type of educational institution. Governor John Albion Andrew signed the legislation creating the institute two days before the first battle of the American Civil War erupted at Fort Sumter.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology moved from Boston's Back Bay to Cambridge in 1916. The institute acquired a one-mile tract of filled lands along the Charles River in 1912 and completed the transfer to the new campus four years later. The move was marked by a ceremonial barge ride across the river on the Bucentaur to symbolize the new chapter for the school.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the nation's largest wartime research and development contractor through the Radiation Laboratory established in 1940. Vannevar Bush directed federal funding to the institute to assist the British military in developing microwave radar. By the end of the war the Radiation Laboratory employed nearly 4,000 people and received in excess of 100 million dollars.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed the GNU Project in 1983 and the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994. The institute also founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985 and created early interactive computer video games like Spacewar! through Project MAC and the Tech Model Railroad Club. These initiatives established the institute as a crucible for the digital age and modern computing technologies.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology faced internal cultural controversies in 1970 when Dean Benson R. Snyder described The Hidden Curriculum. Snyder argued that education was often slighted in favor of following unwritten expectations where graduating with good grades resulted from figuring out the system rather than receiving a solid education. This culture of gamesmanship contributed to student discontent and unrest regarding the institution's priorities.