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MAKING MEDALLIONS AT MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) alum John Sallay of Boston submitted these notes and images about the school foundry's casting of medals of the MIT seal. Thanks!
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 A few years ago, I forwarded to The E-Sylum an article from MIT’s Technology Review about students each year casting bronze medals. While attending my 40th MIT reunion this weekend, I stumbled onto a display related to this program. These heavy, uniface “medallions”, perhaps 2 ½” in diameter, are made using the lost wax process by students in the Department of Material Science and Engineering (DMSE, or Course III in MIT-speak) for the current year’s graduates, as a graduation memento. In addition to examples of unfinished and finished pieces, and a brief description, the display had a running 3-minute video showing the entire process, which you can watch on YouTube. Parenthetically, Eric Newman is also an MIT grad, Class of ’32, so this was his 85th reunion year!    To watch the video, see:
To read the erlier E-Sylum article, see:
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