Tufts allowed students to gain a master's degree in four years simultaneously with a bachelor's degree. He became a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and dated Phoebe Clara Davis, who also came from Chelsea. During his senior year, he managed the football team. A popular student, he was vice president of his sophomore class, and president of his junior class. He then attended Tufts College, like his father before him. The family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1892, and Bush graduated from Chelsea High School in 1909. He was named after John Vannevar, an old friend of the family who had attended Tufts College with Perry. He had two older sisters, Edith and Reba. Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890, the third child and only son of Perry Bush, the local Universalist pastor, and his wife Emma Linwood (née Paine).
3.3 National Defense Research Committee.3.2 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.In Science, The Endless Frontier, his 1945 report to the President of the United States, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation. As head of NDRC and OSRD, he initiated the Manhattan Project, and ensured that it received top priority from the highest levels of government. Bush was a well-known policymaker and public intellectual during World War II, when he was in effect the first presidential science advisor. As chairman of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), and later director of OSRD, Bush coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. īush was appointed to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1938, and soon became its chairman. The memex and Bush's 1945 essay " As We May Think" influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from his vision of the future. The memex, which he began developing in the 1930s (heavily influenced by Emanuel Goldberg's "Statistical Machine" from 1928) was a hypothetical adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of hypertext. An offshoot of the work at MIT by Bush and others was the beginning of digital circuit design theory. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, an analog computer with some digital components that could solve differential equations with as many as 18 independent variables. He is known particularly for his engineering work on analog computers, and for the memex.
Bush became vice president of MIT and dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938.ĭuring his career, Bush patented a string of his own inventions. īush joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company that became the Raytheon Company in 1922. He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation. 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 the Manhattan Project. Vannevar Bush ( / v æ ˈ n iː v ɑːr/ van- NEE-var Ma– June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Oscillating-current circuits an extension of the theory of generalized angular velocities, with applications to the coupled circuit and the artificial transmission line (1916) Carty Award for the Advancement of Science (1953) Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( DEng) Chairman of the Research and Development Boardĭirector of the Office of Scientific Research and DevelopmentĬhairman of the National Defense Research CommitteeĬhairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
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