Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush was born in 1890 in Everett, Massachusetts, the son of a Universalist minister. He studied at Tufts College and earned a doctorate in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard in 1916. He became a professor at MIT and later its vice president and dean of engineering. From 1927 he built the differential analyzer, a mechanical analog computer that could solve differential equations. He also helped found the company that became Raytheon. In 1938 he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. During the Second World War he headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development, through which almost all American wartime military research was carried out, including work on radar and the proximity fuze, and he helped start the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he published 'As We May Think', an essay describing the memex, an imagined microfilm viewer whose linked records resembled hypertext; it inspired generations of computer scientists. His report Science, the Endless Frontier led to the creation of the National Science Foundation. He died in 1974.

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