On This Date in 1926

[DEEPNHOCK]

From The Harvard News.....

1926

A $10,000 grant from the Studebaker Corporation establishes the Albert Russell Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research, headquartered on the top floor of Widener Library.

[starliner62]

you were born right?????

[DEEPNHOCK]

No, but my grandfather was stuck at a red light then...

you were born right?????

[Skip Lackie]

I think the money was wasted, as no one around here seems to know how to time traffic lights to expedite traffic.

[comatus]

Another recent article, from an anti-automobile group, accuses that institute of being a political tool of the industry -- since, after all, if no one had standardized traffic-control engineering practices, the car would have failed and we'd have got to keep the Traction Trusts that all knew and loved.

After the suicide, they changed the name of the institute, but I understand Erskine is still revered in his home country, Huntsville. His son was a noted Random House editor who lived until 1993.