In this lecture, Professor Smith talks about William Barton Rogers and his role in the founding of MIT. Professor Mindell discusses what makes MIT different from other modern universities.

In this lecture, Prof. Mindell discusses the Apollo missions and MIT's role in them. He covers software and hardware, and touches on the lasting effects of MIT's research for the missions.

In this lecture, Prof. Mindell discusses the role of MIT, and technology in general, during the cold war.

The first class of STS.050: History of MIT. In this class, professors Merritt Roe Smith and David Mindell talk about what is expected of students, MIT 150, and some general ideas about what MIT is. They ask about the nature of the word "tech."

In this lecture, Rosalind Williams gives a guest lecture on chemical engineering at MIT, focusing on Warren K. Lewis, the founder of MIT's chemical engineering program. Then, there is a discussion on MIT's role in World War I.

In this lecture, Mindell and Smith talk about the role MIT, and Vannevar Bush, had in the development of technology during the second world war. They also touch on organizations formed during the War, and which ones survived.

In this lecture, Professor Smith lectures on the state of America in the 1850s and the way events at the time affected MIT.

Guest Lecturer Mark Jarzombek discusses the history of MIT's campus. The rest of the lecture discusses the relationship between Harvard and MIT, and early MIT history.

In this lecture, Ross Bassett guest lectures about the history of Indians at MIT. Professor Mindell leads a discussion on MIT's relationship to the corporate world.