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Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts
- Boston Manufacturing CompanyFrancis Cabot Lowell stood in the damp air of Lancashire, England, during 1810. He watched British textile machinery operate with a precision that American…
- Waltham Watch CompanyAaron Lufkin Dennison stood in a Roxbury, Massachusetts workshop in 1849 and dreamed of making pocket watches as easily as shoemakers made shoes.
- Brandeis UniversityIn 1948, a private university opened its doors in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the site of a former medical school called Middlesex University.