In this 1948 letter from the MIT archives, Mayor James Curley of Boston asked MIT President Dr. Karl Compton to task his engineers with designing an anti-snow technology, using flamethrowers or whatever else they had handy.
1948 Mayor to MIT: Use Flamethrowers to Melt Snow?
(Thanks, MITAA!)
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