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Massachusetts legislature selects Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to serve on the MIT faculty, to study water pollution throughout the state, the basis for pioneering water purity tables
Massachusetts legislature selects Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman to serve on the MIT faculty, to study water pollution throughout the state, the basis for pioneering water purity tables
Timeline Date:
1886
Related Teaching Unit:
Water Power, Industrial Manufacturing, and Environmental Transformation in 19th-Century New England