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

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The Massachusetts Bay Colony Institute of Technologickal Arts is not entirely unlike the modern-day Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT, however, was incorporated much later (1861). Future archaelogists will undoubtedly discover the ruins of Dr. Waterhouse's cabin near a steam tunnel running beneath the Infinite Corridor.