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90101

Engineer Vannevar Bush Signature

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:12.00 USD Estimated At:50.00 - 75.00 USD
Engineer Vannevar Bush Signature
<B>Engineer Vannevar Bush Signature</B></I> on card 5.5" x 2", mounted on stiff card stock with a brief biographical sketch. Bush (1890-1974) 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. 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. In 1922, Bush and his college roommate, Laurence K. Marshall, set up the American Appliance Company to market a device called the S-tube. This was a gaseous rectifier invented by C. G. Smith that greatly improved the efficiency of radios. Bush made a lot of money from the venture. Eventually the name was changed to Raytheon, an electronics giant and defense contractor. Very fine.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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