Illinois Tech History

Illinois Tech was created in 1940 by the merger of Armour Institute and Lewis Institute. Located on the west side of Chicago, Lewis Institute, established in 1895 by the estate of hardware merchant and investor Allen C. Lewis, offered liberal arts as well as science and engineering courses for both men and women. At separate meetings held by their respective boards on Oct. 26, 1939, the trustees of Armour and Lewis voted to merge the two colleges. A Cook County circuit court decision on April 23, 1940 solidified the merger.

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Professor W. Rudolph Kanne with his electrostatic generator (atom smasher), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1941

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Year: 1941

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Description Photograph of Professor W. Rudolph Kanne in the Physics Building (Chapin Hall) with his electrostatic generator, also known as an atom smasher. Kanne was an assistant professor of Physics at IIT from 1940 to 1944, and worked on Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor, with Enrico Fermi on the University of Chicago campus. Photographer unknown. Date of photograph is unknown. Date… more

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The Blue Flame, Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah, 1970

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Year: 1970

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Description Transparency depicting the car known as the Blue Flame that set the land speed record on October 23, 1970 at Bonneville Flats, Utah. Powered by ignited liquefied natural gas, the car was conceived by Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute colleagues Dick Keller and Ray Dausman and constructed by Reaction Dynamics, Inc. in Milwaukee. Henry R. Linden, then President of the Institute of… more

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