The essential writings of Vannevar Bush / selected, edited, and introduced by G. Pascal Zachary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bush, Vannevar, 1890-1974, author.

Contributor:

Zachary, G. Pascal, editor, writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology and state--United States.

Technology and state.

Science and state--United States.

Science and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2022]

Summary:

The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush's biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush's most important works across four decades.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword, by Neal Lane

Introduction, by G. Pascal Zachary

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 Application of Science to Warfare (1935)

9. The Engineer and His Relation to Government (1937)

10. The Qualities of a Profession (1939)

11. Innovation, Enterprise, and 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 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" to 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Zachary, G. Pascal The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush

ISBN:

0-231-55247-5

OCLC:

1294146001