When McLamore and Edgerton took over the company, besides dropping
the"Insta-" prefix, they switched to an improved unit which they called a"Flame Broiler.
Students, faculty, and staff are involved in over 50 educational outreach and
public service programs through the MIT Museum, Edgerton Center, and MIT Public Service Center.
Yet historian David Edgerton has joined others in arguing that this founding
myth of the British welfare state- that it was essentially a wartime invention, laid down in the 1942 Beveridge Report and made possible by strong cross-class solidarity forged during the Blitz- is largely that: a myth.