Lester Winsberg , big supporterMSR in basement, friend Louis ChandlerCohen during constructionCarl Grundman was the carpenterPolitical squabblingGood-bye Illinois, hello MITPolitics: tenure refusedSubject on see-sawMachinery driving see-sawSchematic for see-sawSee-saw for DC measurementOtto SchmittMagnetic fiefd of alphaAlpha after long averagingLower: One magnetic sweepOne form of setting upSchematics for first MEGMore prep for alphaJohn Hughes, recent picturePrep trying alphaTrying strobe for evoked, failedPrep for first MEGStudying Heart DipoleNews response, caught MIT eyeMagnetocardiogram , or MCGCoil detector, opened upMSR finally completed, 1967Wall shaking coils in MSRScience: First MEGAbstract from ScienceScience paper