1940's Education | Science, the Endless Frontier

Report

By: Vannevar Bush

Date: 1945

Source: Bush, Vannevar. "Letter of Transmittal" and "Renewal of Our Scientific Talent." Science, the Endless Frontier: A Report to the President. Washington, D.C., 1945. Reprinted in The Educating of Americans: A Documentary History. Daniel Calhoun, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

About the Author: Vannevar Bush (1890–1974), born in Everett, Massachusetts, was an American electrical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of computer hypertext. He was a professor and then dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then became president of the Carnegie Institution in Washington in 1939. During World War II (1939–1945), he headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development and after the war was instrumental in establishing the National Science Foundation.

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