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Monday, August 27th, 2007

A Short History
of the MIT Hobby Shop

By Ken Stone ‘72,

Director of the
Hobby Shop (1991 to present)

 In the 1937-38 academic year, Vannevar Bush, then Vice President of MIT, granted a group of 16 MIT students permission to use a room in the basement of building 2. With equipment they found around the Institute they set up a wood and […]