Endless Frontier: The Bush Memoir

Author: G. Pascal
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Publish Date: 1999-12-01
Features: "To understand the world of Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, start with this book about Vannevar Bush." This book takes Bush's rich personal experiences as its main thread, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous Second World War, not only fully reflects Bush's unique personal style and outstanding scientific management talents but also inspires readers to explore and discover the "endless frontier" in the field of modern science and technology. Some call the 20th century the "American Century," and Vannevar Bush is the "engineer of the American Century." He was an inventor, who invented the most powerful analog computer at the time; he was an entrepreneur, who participated in the establishment of several technology companies; and he was also an educator and a scientific management expert. Bush was an indispensable driving force behind the Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb program, and also the intellectual pioneer of personal computers and the Internet. This book takes Bush's rich personal experiences as its main thread, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous Second World War, not only fully reflects Bush's unique personal style and outstanding scientific management talents but also inspires readers to explore and discover the "endless frontier" in the field of modern science and technology.