Endless frontier: Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century
"A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create th...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technological breakthroughs of the twentieth century. As the inventor and public entrepreneur who launched the Manhattan Project, helped to create the military-industrial complex, conceived a permanent system of government support for science and engineering, and anticipated both the personal computer and the Internet, Vannevar Bush is the twentieth century's Ben Franklin." -- From Amazon.com summary |
| Beschreibung: | x, 527 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents Prologue: “Call it a war” 1 Part One: The Education of an Engineer 1. “The sea was all around” (1890-1909) 11 2. “The man I wanted to be” (1909-18) 23 3. “Blow for blow” (1919-32) 39 4. “Versatile, not superficial” (1932-38) 62 Part Two: Preparingfor War 5. “The minor miracles” (1939-40) 6. “Don’t let the bastards get you down” (1940-41 ) 91 121 Part Three: Modern Arms and Free Men 7. “The man who may win or lose the war” (1942—43) 149 8. “A race between techniques” (1943-44) 169 ix
x Contents 9. “This uranium headache!” (1939-45) 193 10. “The endless frontier” (1944—45) 222 11. “After peace returns” (1945) 245 12. “As we may think” (1945) 266 Part Four: The New World 13. “A carry-over from the war” (1945-46) 285 14. “So doggone weary” (1946-48) 317 15. “The grim world” (1949-54) 352 16. “Crying in the wilderness” (1955-70) 387 Postscript: “Earlier than we think” 414 List of Abbreviations 419 Notes 421 Principal Sources 497 Acknowledgments 507 Index 511
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Contents Prologue: “Call it a war” 1 Part One: The Education of an Engineer 1. “The sea was all around” (1890-1909) 11 2. “The man I wanted to be” (1909-18) 23 3. “Blow for blow” (1919-32) 39 4. “Versatile, not superficial” (1932-38) 62 Part Two: Preparingfor War 5. “The minor miracles” (1939-40) 6. “Don’t let the bastards get you down” (1940-41 ) 91 121 Part Three: Modern Arms and Free Men 7. “The man who may win or lose the war” (1942—43) 149 8. “A race between techniques” (1943-44) 169 ix
x Contents 9. “This uranium headache!” (1939-45) 193 10. “The endless frontier” (1944—45) 222 11. “After peace returns” (1945) 245 12. “As we may think” (1945) 266 Part Four: The New World 13. “A carry-over from the war” (1945-46) 285 14. “So doggone weary” (1946-48) 317 15. “The grim world” (1949-54) 352 16. “Crying in the wilderness” (1955-70) 387 Postscript: “Earlier than we think” 414 List of Abbreviations 419 Notes 421 Principal Sources 497 Acknowledgments 507 Index 511 |
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