Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:16:Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts (Neal Stephenson)

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This is totally fictitious. Nothing like it ever existed. It is one of the "hypotheses" upon which the "romance" is founded (see Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:1:Those who assume hypotheses...).

Yet isn't it a bit coincidental that its name could be shortened to Massachusetts Institute of Technology? Of course the real MIT wasn't founded until the mid 1800's. http://web.mit.edu/facts/mission.html