Thursday,24th July 2008 UTC

On this page about Vannevar Bush:

• Tags
• Encyclopedia extract
• Translations
• Search Results

Tags

• 1890 births (322)
• 1974 deaths (282)
• Computer pioneers (120)
• Electrical engineers (67)
• Futurologists (27)
• Harvard University alumni (348)
• Information science (32)
• Manhattan Project people (66)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni (83)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty (50)
• Memetics (28)
• National Inventors Hall of Fame (135)
• National Medal of Science recipients (176)
• People from Middlesex County, Massachusetts (72)
• Presidential Medal for Merit recipients (14)
• Tufts University alumni (35)

Encyclopedia: Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 30, 1974) was an American engineer and science administrator, known for his work on analog computing, his political role in the development of the atomic bomb, and the idea of the memex—seen as a pioneering concept for the World Wide Web. A leading figure in the development of the military-industrial complex and the military funding of science in the United States, Bush was a prominent policymaker and public intellectual ("the patron saint of American science") during World War II and the ensuing Cold War.^[1] Through his public career, Bush was a proponent of democratic technocracy and of the centrality of technological innovation and entrepreneurship for both economic and geopolitical security. His name is pronounced Van-NEE-var as in "receiver" (IPA: [ˌvæˈniː.vɚ]).

Translations

How to say "Vannevar Bush" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	万尼瓦尔·布什
	(Japanese)	ヴァネヴァー・ブッシュ
	(German)	Vannevar Bush
	(Spanish)	Vannevar Bush
	(French)	Vannevar Bush
	(Italian)	Vannevar Bush

Search results

Norman Hackerman

Norman Hackerman was a chemist, and president of Rice University (1970-1985). He was the winner of the Vannevar Bush Award for 1993...

→  read in the encylopedia

James Van Allen

Prize in 1989 Vannevar Bush Award in 1991...

→  read in the encylopedia

Differential analyser

The differential analyser was a mechanical analog computer invented by Vannevar Bush in 1927. It is designed to solve differential equations by integration, using wheel-and-disc mechanisms to perform the integration. The differential analyser was used in the development of the bouncing bomb, used...

→  read in the encylopedia

Edison Medal

award include Elihu Thomson, George Westinghouse, Alexander Graham Bell, Nikola Tesla, and Vannevar Bush. A complete list can be found here...

→  read in the encylopedia

1890 in literature

- John de Vries, writer March 11 - Vannevar Bush, author (+ 1974) August 20 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror...

→  read in the encylopedia

As We May Think

Vannevar Bush's essay As We May Think , first published in Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. His article described something in...

→  read in the encylopedia

Majestic 12

supposed to have been chaired by Vannevar Bush, Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein and with... original Majestic 12 committee are: Rear Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter Dr. Vannevar Bush James Forrestal...

→  read in the encylopedia

Prizes named after people

Award – Alan Turing Turner Prize – J. M. W. Turner Vannevar Bush Award – Vannevar Bush Walkley...

→  read in the encylopedia

Proximity fuse

...

→  read in the encylopedia

Bush

Bush unrelated to the "political" Bush family: American scientist Vannevar Bush Musician Kate Bush... A bush is a plant with stems which are of the order of a metre long (that is, of a similar scale to humans). Specifically: bush -- a kind of plant (see shrub) bush -- in modern Australasian usage...

→  read in the encylopedia