MIT BUILDING 20
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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.
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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.
About the Author
Bradford Howland grew up in Lafayette Indiana and attended Purdue University where graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1945. He then designed equipment for rocket sonde experiments at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington D.C. Thereafter he earned a MS in applied physics at Harvard and, later, a PhD in electrical engineering and computing at MIT. He spent most of his career at the Research Laboratory of Electronics in association with Jerome Y. Lettvin and at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory where he designed satellite orientation equipment. He is now retired and living in Madison Wisconsin