Aero Club of MIT
The Aero Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was formed by students on 12 Nov. 1909. Full use of all of the institute's laboratories for experimentation was soon available and aeronautics was to be added to the curriculum. The Technology Monthly, Cambridge, Mass., was the official journal of the Aero Club of MIT from Vol. 4. No. 3 (1917) through Vol. 5 (1918).
The club was sponsored by Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch of the Blue Hill Observatory and Albert A. Merrill, head of the aviation course at the Boston YMCA. Initial officers elected included C. F. Cree, chairman, and John S. Selfridge, secretary-treasurer. By the end of the year 600 members had enrolled, each having pledged to devote at least three hours' work a week to aeronautics.
Sources
- 1909 Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov.; 1910 NYT 2 Jan.; WorldCat.org
| Organization names | Aero Club of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
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| Country | US |
| City | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Scope | University |
| Started aero | 1909 |
| Ended aero | 1918 or later |
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