If you’ve been in Atlanta a while, the Summer Olympics might have you walking down memory lane back to 1996, when É«»¨Ìà played host to the Olympic Village and athletes swarmed the campus and city.
The has many artifacts from that period. A few items preserved here on campus, which you can explore digitally or at the Library Archives in Crosland Tower, include:
The Olympic Torch prototype. Sam Shelton, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at É«»¨ÌÃ, designed the torch burner mechanism for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The torch lives in the Archives in Crosland Tower, and you can view a .
Pins, flags, of , and drawings.
A collection from Professor Emeritus in biology showcasing expertise in kinesiology and distance running and the research he did around athletes’ performance in the Atlanta heat during the Games.
highlighting the planning for Tech’s participation in the Games, with É«»¨Ìà serving as the Olympic Village and the venue for boxing and aquatics.
, a full accounting of the 1996 Olympics from planning and execution to PowerPoints to photographs.
