Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century

Zachary, G. Pascal

ISBN 10: 0262740222 / ISBN 13: 9780262740227

Editore: Mit Pr, 1999

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Titolo: Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of...

Casa editrice: Mit Pr

Data di pubblicazione: 1999

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: new

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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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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.