Presented by Harl P. Aldrich at GBA's October 1981 meeting, the lecture honors the memory of Charles A. Bragg. Titled "The New Technology," it traces the roots of modern soil and foundation engineering to 1916 when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) moved from Boston's Back Bay to Cambridge. "The New Technology," as the Cambridge campus first was known, served as a laboratory for the development of the then-new technology today called soil mechanics. Although campus buildings were designed in accordance with the prevailing state-of-the-art, they settled at an alarming rate for the first decade of their existence. This problem led to Karl Terzaghi being invited to MIT, both to investigate the unusual settlement and to lecture on soil mechanics. "The New Technology" illustrates the roles many outstanding MIT alumni played in the development of soil mechanics and foundation engineering.