Mit Building 20 Short Stories Bradford Howland 9781499017892 Books
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Bradford Howland has had a long association with MIT. s Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) which was housed in a World War II wooden building, known only as "Building 20" It housed neurophysiologists, linguists, and the MIT train club, among others. Even while Brad worked at a daytime job Lincoln Laboratory, he had a lab in Building 20 where he spent many late nights observing and interacting with scientists, mechanics, students, secretaries, janitors, guards, and people who simply walked in off the streets. These are the stories of those interactions.
Mit Building 20 Short Stories Bradford Howland 9781499017892 Books
I knew Building 20 in its later years, and I knew Jerry Lettvin.The stories are even more droll for those familiarities.
Brad Howland is to be commended for these stories, and I can only hope he will grace us with some longer ones somewhen hence.
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Mit Building 20 Short Stories Bradford Howland 9781499017892 Books Reviews
These banal and pointless stories are surprisingly affecting both because they occurred in one of the great research centres in American history and because of the guileless way the author recounts them. Many of them stick in the mind the 16-year-old girl who skipped college during World War II to work in Building 20 and wound up working with six or eight Nobel Prize winners, the time a purse snatcher was chased down and held for the police by a Nobel Prize winner and the President of MIT, the war veterans who worked as janitors in the building. One gets the feeling that Bradford Howland is not telling all he knows by a long shot, perhaps because some of the work was secret, perhaps because some of the people are still alive. One hopes he has set down those stories somewhere, to be found among his papers and published posthumously. If not, these stories are enough.
Probably more interesting if all of the names mean something to you.
I knew Building 20 in its later years, and I knew Jerry Lettvin.
The stories are even more droll for those familiarities.
Brad Howland is to be commended for these stories, and I can only hope he will grace us with some longer ones somewhen hence.
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