This item is certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity. Physics in late-nineteenth century America was not yet the booming field it would later become. Between the founding of the Institute and the outbreak of the First World War less than sixty undergraduate degrees were conferred by the department. Despite this, the interests of the department were quickly diversifying: during this period, the department offered the first courses in electrical engineering that had ever been taught in the United States, and pioneering work was being done by researchers at the laboratory, which Pickering and his successor, Charles R. Cross, had managed to turn into a productive research laboratory as well as a teaching space. Both Pickering and Cross embraced the budding technology of the electrical industry and integrated it into the research conducted by the department. Cross invited Alexander Graham Bell, then a professor at Boston University, to use the facilities at MIT’s acoustics and electrical laboratory. Bell’s work at MIT led directly to his invention of the telephone in 1876, and a precursor to this invention, the phonautograph (which allowed the visualization of sound waves, but not the replaying of them back), can be seen in one of the only depictions of the Rogers Laboratory. By 1883 the laboratory had migrated into a much larger space in a new building equipped with modern electrical facilities. As the laboratory expanded, so did its research fields, spawning numerous sub-laboratories underneath the growing auspices of the Rogers Laboratory. This item is in the category “Entertainment Memorabilia\Autographs-Original\Movies\Other Orig. Movie Autographs”. The seller is “historicsellsmemorabilia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, New Zealand, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Wallis and Futuna, Gambia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Poland, Oman, Suriname, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Argentina, Guinea-Bissau, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Bhutan, Senegal, Togo, Ireland, Qatar, Burundi, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Equatorial Guinea, Thailand, Aruba, Sweden, Iceland, Macedonia, Belgium, Israel, Liechtenstein, Kuwait, Benin, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Swaziland, Italy, Tanzania, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Panama, Singapore, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Djibouti, Chile, China, Mali, Botswana, Republic of Croatia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Portugal, Tajikistan, Vietnam, Malta, Cayman Islands, Paraguay, Saint Helena, Cyprus, Seychelles, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Australia, Austria, Sri Lanka, Gabon Republic, Zimbabwe, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Norway, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Kiribati, Turkmenistan, Grenada, Greece, Haiti, Greenland, Yemen, Afghanistan, Montenegro, Mongolia, Nepal, Bahamas, Bahrain, United Kingdom, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Angola, Western Samoa, France, Mozambique, Namibia, Peru, Denmark, Guatemala, Solomon Islands, Vatican City State, Sierra Leone, Nauru, Anguilla, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Cameroon, Guyana, Azerbaijan Republic, Macau, Georgia, Tonga, San Marino, Eritrea, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Morocco, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Mauritania, Belize, Philippines, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Colombia, Spain, Estonia, Bermuda, Montserrat, Zambia, South Korea, Vanuatu, Ecuador, Albania, Ethiopia, Monaco, Niger, Laos, Ghana, Cape Verde Islands, Moldova, Madagascar, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Lebanon, Liberia, Bolivia, Maldives, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Central African Republic, Lesotho, Nigeria, Mauritius, Saint Lucia, Jordan, Guinea, Canada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Chad, Andorra, Romania, Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Lithuania, Trinidad and Tobago, Malawi, Nicaragua, Finland, Tunisia, Uganda, Luxembourg, Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, Latvia, Jamaica, South Africa, Brunei Darussalam, Honduras.
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