The essential writings of Vannevar Bush
"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 T...
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New York
Columbia University Press
[2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Neal Lane
- Introduction / by G. Pascal Zachary
- Editor's note
- 1. Preface to Operational Circuit Analysis (1929)
- 2. Key to accomplishment (1932)
- 3. Inscrutable past (1933)
- 4. Warren Weaver letters on the future of computing machinery (1933)
- 5. Persistent fallacy of the absent-minded professor (1933)
- 6. Stimulation of new products and new industries by the Depression (1934)
- 7. Businessman in this situation (1934)
- 8. Against isolation and for applying science to war (1935)
- 9. Engineer and his relation to government (1937)
- 10. 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" : memorandum regarding Memex (1941)
- 16. Science and national defense (1941)
- 17. Edison and our tradition of opportunity (1944)
- 18. Salient points concerning the future of atomic bombs (1944)
- 19. 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. 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. Essence of security (1949)
- 31. Atomic bomb and the defense of the free world (1951)
- 32. Few quick (1951)
- 33. On leadership and management (1951)
- 34. "Timing of the thermonuclear test" (1952)
- 35. "Search for understanding" (1953)
- 36. Peak wave of progress in digital machinery (1954)
- 37. "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. 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. 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. Other fellows' ball park (1961)
- 50. Two cultures (1962)
- 51. Automation's awkward age (1962)
- 52. What is research? (1963)
- 53. t Art of management (1967)
- 54. "On the difficulty in Vietnam" (1967)
- 55. "Do birds sing for the joy of singing?" (1970)
- 56. Revolution in machines to reduce mental drudgery (1970)
- Acknowledgements.
