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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Ear on Chicago, episode 38: Running a Mountain Through a Sieve: Universal Atlas Cement Company

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Year: 1956

Contributors Buckstaff, John B., Hill, Hugh, Illinois Institute of Technology, WBBM (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

Description Air date unknown, date is approximate. Produced in cooperation with WBBM radio, recorded, and edited by John B. Buckstaff, supervisor of radio and television at IIT; narrated by Fahey Flynn, a noted Chicago newscaster, and Hugh Hill, special events director of WBBM (later, a well-known Chicago television news anchor), coordinated by Herb Grayson, WBBM director of information services; and… more

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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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