M.I.T. Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 This article appeared in the Proceedings of the 27th International Cycling History Conference, North Haven, Connecticut, USA, 2016 In 1974, Professor Shawn Buckley ran an M.I.T. Independent Activities Period course where participants, including Marc Rosenbaum and Harriet Fell, got to build their own bicycle frames. Marc Rosenbaum, then a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, set out to create a bicycle that would give a rider an acceleration ...