The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush /

The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush / / Vannevar Bush; ed. by G. Pascal Zachary.

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. As a leading figure in the creation of the National Science Foundation, the organizer of the Manhattan Project, and an adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman...

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Bush, Vannevar,
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Zachary, G. Pascal,
HerausgeberIn:
Zachary, G. Pascal,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • “A CAPE COD YANKEE”
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • INTRODUCTION
  • EDITOR’S NOTE
  • 1 PREFACE TO OPERATIONAL CIRCUIT ANALYSIS (1929)
  • 2 THE KEY TO ACCOMPLISHMENT (1932)
  • 3 THE INSCRUTABLE PAST (1933)
  • 4 THE WARREN WEAVER LETTERS ON THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING MACHINERY (1933)
  • 5 THE PERSISTENT FALLACY OF THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1933)
  • 6 STIMULATION OF NEW PRODUCTS AND NEW INDUSTRIES BY THE DEPRESSION (1934)
  • 7 THE BUSINESSMAN IN THIS SITUATION (1934)
  • 8 AGAINST ISOLATION AND FOR APPLYING SCIENCE TO WAR (1935)
  • 9 THE ENGINEER AND HIS RELATION TO GOVERNMENT (1937)
  • 10 THE QUALITIES OF A PROFESSION (1939)
  • 11 INNOVATION, ENTERPRISE, AND THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC POWER (1939)
  • 12 LETTER TO HERBERT HOOVER ON “THE WHOLE WORLD SITUATION” (1939)
  • 13 LETTER TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH ON “ADEQUATE HANDLING OF LARGE MASSES OF PHOTOGRAPHS” (1940)
  • 14 “LEAVE NO STONES UNTURNED IN RESEARCH” (1940)
  • 15 “TO THE THINGS OF THE MIND” (1941) Memorandum Regarding Memex
  • 16 SCIENCE AND NATIONAL DEFENSE (1941)
  • 17 EDISON AND OUR TRADITION OF OPPORTUNITY (1944)
  • 18 SALIENT POINTS CONCERNING FUTURE OF ATOMIC BOMBS (1944)
  • 19 THE BUILDERS (1945)
  • 20 TEAMWORK OF TECHNICIANS (1945)
  • 21 AS WE MAY THINK (1945)
  • 22 “LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL” TO PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN (1945)
  • 23 “SUMMARY” OF SCIENCE, THE ENDLESS FRONTIER (1945)
  • 24 SOLDIERS AND SCIENTISTS IN PARTNERSHIP (1946)
  • 25 ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH FOR WAR (1946)
  • 26 THE DANGER OF DICTATION OF SCIENCE BY LAYMEN (1946)
  • 27 SHOULD SCIENTISTS RESIST MILITARY INTRUSION? (1947)
  • 28 SCIENCE, DEMOCRACY, AND WAR (1949)
  • 29 HOW SCIENCE WORKS, OR DOESN’T, UNDER TOTALITARIANISM (1949)
  • 30 THE ESSENCE OF SECURITY (1949)
  • 31 THE ATOMIC BOMB AND THE DEFENSE OF THE FREE WORLD (1951)
  • 32 A FEW QUICK (1951)
  • 33 ON LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT (1951)
  • 34 “THE TIMING OF THE THERMONUCLEAR TEST” (1952)
  • 35 “THE SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING” (1953)
  • 36 THE PEAK WAVE OF PROGRESS IN DIGITAL MACHINERY (1954)
  • 37 “AN OPPORTUNITY WAS MISSED” TO HALT NUCLEAR ARMS RACE (1954)
  • 38 IN THE MATTER OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (1954)
  • 39 SOME THINGS WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT SOLAR POWER (1954)
  • 40 THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL INFORMATION Storage, Retrieval, Search, and the Construction of Knowledge (1955)
  • 41 FAITH AND SCIENCE (1955)
  • 42 WHY DO WE PURSUE SCIENCE AT ALL? (1955)
  • 43 THE PIONEER (1957)
  • 44 “THOSE WHO TALK FREQUENTLY BECOME IGNORED” (1957/1959)
  • 45 ON SPUTNIK (1957)
  • 46 “ALL-OUT WAR UNTHINKABLE TO ANY SANE INDIVIDUAL” (1959)
  • 47 MACHINES TO FREE MEN’S MINDS (1960)
  • 48 ON SPACE EXPLORATION The James Webb Letters (1961–1963)
  • 49 THE OTHER FELLOWS’ BALL PARK (1961)
  • 50 TWO CULTURES (1962)
  • 51 AUTOMATION’S AWKWARD AGE (1962)
  • 52 WHAT IS RESEARCH? (1963)
  • 53 THE ART OF MANAGEMENT (1967)
  • 54 “ON THE DIFFICULTY IN VIETNAM” (1967)
  • 55 “DO BIRDS SING FOR THE JOY OF SINGING?” (1970)
  • 56 THE REVOLUTION IN MACHINES TO REDUCE MENTAL DRUDGERY (1970)
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX

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