Baker Piano Drop Leads the '150' Vote Count…So Far
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As of Nov. 9, the Baker House Piano Drop was leading the early vote. [Nov. 10 update: Hacking has broken into the early morning lead--but Museum staff realized it was because the poll was hacked!; by noon Baker had retaken the lead.] Of course that does not exactly spell doom for the rest of the objects since 150 items actually will go on view in the MIT 150 Exhibition.
See the real-time voting results.
You can review and vote for up to 10 items, which range from stalwarts like Great Dome photos to an amazing waterfall hack from last year.
MIT Museum staff will make the final curatorial decisions, but this popular vote will weigh heavily in their choices, says Deborah Douglas, MIT Museum curator of science and technology.
Voting for the MIT 150 is open to all. The online voting closes January 1, although stories may be added continually on the website. By doing so, “the MIT Museum hopes to build an open repository of artifacts and stories that is as rich and deep as any other library or archive here on campus,” says Douglas.
Comments
Robert W Terry
Thu, 11/12/2009 11:16am
As the electric trigger man of the 12 Dekes class of '50 who buried many feet of Primacord in the Harvard stadium to form "MIT" when detonated I heartily endorse this exhibition which was successful years later with a balloon show. Ours was detected and failed. Bless Dean Baker (a Deke) for getting us a term dismissal and not a permanant one. Many of us were WWII vets hence Primacord knowledge.
Pintheinfo
Sat, 12/05/2009 11:00pm
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Dave Webster
Thu, 11/12/2009 8:46am
Clearly, the device from the balloon at the Harvard/Yale game circa 1983 should be included. Few people know the full history of this epic event.,,
If it makes it in, and you need the history (which dates back to 1950), let me know.
Dave Webster 82
David Everett Baker
Mon, 11/16/2009 12:41am
As a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy I came home for the weekend to attend the Harvard-Yale Game with my mother and father, Dean Baker. At half time we were to change sides moving from the Harvard side of Soldiers Field to the Yale side, switching seats with Sidney Lovett, then Chaplain at Yale and my father's mentor in ministry. The Boston police, out in force were not permitting any cross field movement. Late that evening my father received a call from the Boston Police. I recall that they requested some advice as to what they should do with the paddy wagon of Deke's that they had picked up. I think that Dad's respnse was that he would deal with it Sunday morning.
Jim Hadden
Thu, 11/26/2009 5:08am
The Johnny-on-the-pot hack, which is incorrectly reported in the MIT Hacks book. In the wee hours of a Spring morning of 1963, when construction was underway for the Green Earth Science center in the parking lot behind Building 26, an enterprising group of students from East Compost used a car owned by John Pirkle, "laude cum lately '63", to transport a portable toilet from to Hahvad Yahd and attach it to the statue of John Hahvad. After covering it with a bed she'Johnny on the Spot'et and assuring a passing Hahvad Yahd cop that everything was copacetic, they took a few snaps of 'Johnny on the Pot'! I call on Bill Gerace et al to back up this account.
David E. Webst…
Tue, 11/24/2009 4:16pm
Hi,
And I thought my son was studying!! Chip, David E. Webster, Jr. class of 1982 was President of the DKE's when M.I.T. won it's first Ivy league football game, defeating both Harvard and Yale.
This plan was well conceived, very well executed, and received proper press coverage.
No one was hurt, other than some egos. A perfect hack!!
David E. Webster, Sr. class of 1950
Robert W Terry
Wed, 11/18/2009 1:31pm
In re David Everett Baker's comment Nov 16 to my memmory there was no Boston Police paddy wagon of Dekes at the failed '48 Prima chord Stadium event. The only people tagged were my Lady friend and I at the small occupied observation shack beneath the on-field benches where the wires were exposed for detonation. Dean Baker took us both from the police station out the back door away from the newsmen and back to the Deke house. Oh! I'm Andover alumni, heh, heh.
Dean Starovasnik
Sun, 11/15/2009 9:31pm
All I can say is, "Did any other hack get national media coverage?" The Harvard-Yale weather balloon hack got Brett Musburger's attention such that he interviewed the Deke's involved and included it in his end of football season wrap up along with the Stanford Band Play. The only one that comes close is the recent coverage of the Smoot Hack regarding its 50th(?) anniversary.
Jack Barriger
Thu, 11/12/2009 10:38pm
I second Bob Terry's nomination of the Harvard-Yale weather balloon hack which succeeded where our 1948 primacord hack failed.
Jacob Bourgeois
Thu, 11/12/2009 8:22pm
I vote balloon all the way.
mark johnson
Thu, 11/12/2009 12:10pm
The MIT Balloon at the Harvard-Yale Game
Todd Drake
Thu, 11/12/2009 10:09am
Am I correct in *not* seeing any trace in this list of the One True Mad Scientist and all around MIT Legend Joe Davis?!? No Venus Poetica, no mice with galaxy-maps encoded in their DNA, nothing?!?
Heresy, yet sadly not unexpected.
TD
mostly 83 with a bit of 94
Stephan Quentzel
Wed, 11/11/2009 5:42pm
Must display DKE's weather balloon and inflation mechanism which gave MIT the victory over Harvard and Yale at their football game 27 years ago.