The California Institute of Technology developed from a local school of arts
and crafts founded in Pasadena in 1891 by the Honorable Amos G. Throop.
Initially named Throop University, it was later renamed Throop Polytechnic
Institute. Known as the California Institute of Technology since 1920, it has
enjoyed the support of the citizens of Pasadena, and as early as 1908 the Board
of Trustees had as members Dr. Norman Bridge, Arthur H. Fleming, Henry M.
Robinson, J. A. Culbertson, C. W. Gates, and Dr. George Ellery Hale. The
dedication by these men, of their time, their minds, and their fortunes,
transformed a modest vocational school into a university capable of attracting
to its faculty some of the most eminent of the world's scholars and scientists.
