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Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century is a 1997 non-fiction book written by G. Pascal Zachary, published by The Free Press. It is a biography of Vannevar Bush. Zachary described how the internet was preceded by the memex and rapid selector, things created by Bush. [1]
Vannevar Bush (/ v æ ˈ n iː v ɑːr / van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including important developments in radar and the initiation and early administration of ...
Endless Frontier may refer to: Science, The Endless Frontier, a 1945 report by Vannevar Bush to the President of the United States; Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century; U.S. Innovation and Competition Act. formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act; Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier
The foundation for modern American science policy was laid way out in Vannevar Bush's Science – the Endless Frontier, submitted to President Truman in 1945. Vannevar Bush was President Roosevelt's science advisor and became one of the most influential science advisors as, in his essay, he pioneered how we decide on science policy today. [33]
While ostensibly working with Kilgore to plan for a science administration, Vannevar Bush privately obtained an invitation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to write his own plan for a government-funded science foundation. Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington introduced a proposal based on Bush's report, Science, the Endless Frontier, in ...
Vannevar Bush's 1945 report, Science: The Endless Frontier, made the argument for the value of basic research in the postwar era, and was the basis for many appeals to the federal funding of basic research. [6] The 1957 launch of Sputnik prompted the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research to sponsor blue skies research into the ...
Information and Secrecy: Vannevar Bush, Ultra, and the Other Memex. The Scarecrow Press. ... Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century. MIT ...
This era was predicted in a 1945 report, Science, The Endless Frontier, [16] written by Vannevar Bush, who was an MIT graduate and influential head of the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development. MIT's expansion into physics was encouraged by its president Karl Compton and by the head of the physics department, John C. Slater.