Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century - Brossura

Zachary, G. Pascal

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0262740222 ISBN 13: 9780262740227

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1999

Riassunto

As a young professor at MIT in the 1920s, Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) did seminal work on analog computing and was a cofounder of Raytheon, whose initial success was based on long-lasting radio tubes. But he is best known for his role in Washington during World War II: as President Roosevelt's advisor, he organized the Manhattan Project and oversaw the work of 6,000 civilian scientists designing new weapons. His 1945 report "Science -- The Endless Frontier" spurred the creation of a system of public support for university research that endures to this day.Although he helped to give rise to the military-industrial complex, Bush was a skeptical observer of the interplay between science and politics. He warned against the dangers of an arms race and led a failed effort to halt testing of the hydrogen bomb. This balanced and gracefully written biography brings to life an American original and his times.

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L'autore

G. Pascal Zachary is a senior writer at the Wall Street Journal. He has lectured on the history of technology at the University of California at Berkeley, the Smithsonian Institution, and Columbia University.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0262740222
• ISBN 13: 9780262740227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 528