![]() ![]() Yet his coat is pervious to air as it should be for his good health, and it fits beautifully. ![]() One of his favorites, from an essay, he penned in 1932 about the design and engineering of fabrics and clothing, was the duck: ![]() During the course of compiling Bush’s seminal works for my new book The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush, just published by Columbia University Press (2022), I pulled out some quotations of particular interest to IEEE Spectrum readers:Ī master of metaphors, Bush searched for everyday analogies to explain technical products and processes. His “As We May Think” article, for the July 1945 issue of The Atlantic magazine, envisioned a desktop computer and a “web” of “associative trails” that no less than the founders of Google cite as the inspiration for today’s information science and the Internet.īush was a fount of wisdom, particularly when it came to defining the engineer’s role in the industrial research and development enterprise. After the war, he distinguished himself as a prime advocate for government funding of science and as a leading visionary the coming revolution in information technology. Roosevelt, he led all research by civilians for the military and organized the Manhattan Project. During World War II, as personal science and engineering adviser to President Franklin D. ![]() As early as the 1930s, he viewed the entrepreneur and the engineer as twin forces for progress and technological advancement.īorn in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Vannevar Bush was the first trained electrical engineer to publicly proclaim in influential circles that EEs are one engine of innovation and the drive behind digital technology. ![]()
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