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Otto Von der Hyde
born c. 1901
The first machine shop of the MIT Geology department established in April, 1934. Otto von der Heyde was hired as an instrument maker.
Robert Rakes Shrock, Geology at MIT 1865-1965: A History of the First Hundred Years of Geology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Press, 1982, pg. 294, accessed via Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=w5PU8Bu3trAC&pg=PA294 (accessed 07/11/2015)