As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) didseminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose i... read full description
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May 12, 2010
Jack
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A fine and useful book about the man who made possible large-scale government funding of research -- in other words, the man who made possible my life. Bush was an interesting set of contradictions -- a conservative who organized big-government, fiercely secretive believer in open science. His work in WWII is frequently omitted from conventional histories of the War.
But the book would have benefited by being a third shorter. Moreover, it spends lots of time on Bush's political t More...
But the book would have benefited by being a third shorter. Moreover, it spends lots of time on Bush's political t More...
Jun 24, 2009
John
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Heavy going. I haven't managed to finish it but i got through the second world war.
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