When the Mayor of Boston asked MIT for anti-snow flamethrowers

When the Mayor of Boston asked MIT for anti-snow flamethrowers

via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 2/2/11

In this 1948 letter from the MIT archives, Mayor James Curley of Boston asked MIT President Dr. Karl Compton to task his engineers with designing an anti-snow technology, using flamethrowers or whatever else they had handy.

1948 Mayor to MIT: Use Flamethrowers to Melt Snow? (Thanks, MITAA!)

 

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