Technology & Engineering
The Principles of Scientific Management
In The Principles of Scientific Management, Frederick Winslow Taylor argues that work can be organized more systematically to improve effici…
Apollo Space Missions Collection
A crew debriefing about EVA-1, an extravehicular activity associated with the Apollo space missions. The recording offers a firsthand, discu…
The World Is Yours
The World Is Yours presents a historical subject through the intimate, imaginative medium of radio drama. This recording focuses on the stor…
Your Army Air Forces
“Radar Defense” is presented as a program in the Your Army Air Forces series. The title points to radar defense as its subject, placing the …
America's Town Meeting of the Air
America's Town Meeting of the Air brings public questions into a lively radio forum, inviting listeners to hear opposing viewpoints debated …
Medical Milestones: The Heart-Lung Machine
A medical program focused on the heart-lung machine, a device that temporarily takes over the work of the heart and lungs during certain ope…
Early Wireless Lee de Forest Interview
An early wireless interview with Lee de Forest, the inventor and radio pioneer. The recording offers a chance to hear de Forest speak in an …
Early Wireless
Early Wireless presents a program about the history and development of radio communication. This installment features Fred Manglesdorf discu…
Bombs Away: The Development of the American Bomber Fortresses
A title focused on the development of American bomber fortresses, suggesting an account of the aircraft and their role in wartime aviation. …
Apollo Space Missions Collection
This collection concerns the Apollo space missions, including material identified with Schweickart’s extravehicular activity on the lunar mo…
Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Instructor: Dennis Freeman, Kendra Pugh
This course provides an integrated introduction to electrical engineering and computer science, inc…
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming
Instructor: Professor John Guttag
Collection of 26 lectures given during the Spring 2011 semester of 6.00, Introduction to Computer Science…
National Hour
“The Postwar Future of Plastics” is a National Hour program focused on the possibilities and prospects of plastics in the years following Wo…
MIT2.007S09
Welcome to 2.007! This course is a first subject in engineering design. With your help, this course will be a great learning experience expo…
The Society of Mind
Instructor: Marvin Minsky
This course is an introduction to a theory that tries to explain how minds are made from collections of simpler p…
MIT6.774F04
This course is offered to graduates and focuses on understanding the fundamental principles of the "front-end" processes used in t…
Voice of Industry: The Story of Canning
“The Story of Canning” is presented as a program titled Voice of Industry. The title points to a subject-focused account of canning, a proce…
Face to the Future: Computers Will Dominate the Second Half of the Century
A forward-looking program about the future of computers, framed around the prediction that they will dominate the second half of the century…
Apollo Space Missions Collection
This recording is identified as part of an Apollo space missions collection, with “Columbia and Eagle Re-Dock” as its accompanying title. Th…
Dynamics and Control I
This class is an introduction to the dynamics and vibrations of lumped-parameter models of mechanical systems. Topics include kinematics; fo…