Room 40 knew a lot about the submarine that ultimately sank the "Lusitania." The submarine was U-20, under the command of one Captain Walther Schwieger. And what Room 40 knew was, first of all they knew exactly what his orders were. And they were not to sink the "Lusitania," they were to sink any large troop transport that he encountered.
So he did them privately at home. That's inside the Waltham plant, by the way.
Herald," still alive today. Cycle racing-- here's the Waltham Cycle Track in the 1890s. Anybody who travels out through Waltham and goes by the Nipper Maher Park out there, right on South Street near Brandeis,
Cycle racing-- here's the Waltham Cycle Track in the 1890s. Anybody who travels out through Waltham and goes by the Nipper Maher Park out there, right on South Street near Brandeis, will notice a series of baseball fields and whatnot right off of South Street and at the end of Shakespeare Road, named
will notice a series of baseball fields and whatnot right off of South Street and at the end of Shakespeare Road, named after the first captain of the Waltham Bicycle Club in the 1880s, William Shakespeare-- none other than a descendant of the original William Shakespeare, or so his family claims.
So he did them privately at home. But that's up in Waltham, Massachusetts, and that made millions upon millions of packs of Polaroid film.
But also any organized crime that you've heard of, probably in the last 8 to 10 years, so if you think about the 2011 riots, if you heard about that big thing that kicked off in Walthamstow between two rival girl gangs last week, organized gang-rapes, organized robberies, organized movements against the police, or what they call the feds, they absolutely will have had some element of technology driving it, and probably quite a lot.
Which would be a lot like bundling together the activities of a group of teenagers with firecrackers, a group of political protesters in the street with a smoke bomb, James Bond with his Walther PPK missile, a terrorist with a roadside bomb, and a Russian cruise missile, and saying these are all the same because they involve the chemistry of gunpowder.
but also for the western suburbs. All the streetcar lines that came in from Watertown, from Newton, from Waltham, from Arlington all funneled into Harvard Square, where people would change to take the streetcar into Boston.
It's where I went to high school and college. And right out of college, I got a really great job working for Gap, Inc. Doing corporate real estate, and the office is actually in Waltham. And settling into this new job and my commute, I realized how difficult it was to feed myself well
what was available was not suitable for their local needs. And the way they addressed this problem -- have been addressing this problem -- is quite interesting. They went to a company on the other side of the world, just outside of Boston in Waltham named Innocentive. Innocentive is actually a online marketplace for scientific problems. It's a bit like Ebay or CraigsList but instead of posting a description of your furniture or car or whatever you can post a description of