The Engineer of the American Century

<p><strong>Vannevar Bush</strong> was not a president a general or a celebrity but as Franklin D. Roosevelt's most trusted scientific advisor he became the quiet architect of modern America.</p><p>This is the definitive biography of the pragmatic electrical engineer who secretly mobilized the nation's academic and industrial might. As the head of the colossal <strong>Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)</strong> Bush orchestrated the development of <strong>radar</strong> <strong>penicillin</strong> the proximity fuse and ultimately the <strong>Manhattan Project</strong>. He proved that organized large-scale research was the key to global power.</p><p>After the war he delivered his second masterwork: <em>Science The Endless Frontier</em> the revolutionary blueprint that established the <strong>National Science Foundation</strong> and created the federal funding system that fuels innovation today. Simultaneously his prophetic vision of the <strong>Memex</strong> device-a concept that prefigured hypertext and the personal computer-anticipated the digital world we now inhabit.</p><p><em>The Engineer of the American Century</em> is the full complex story of the political operator and technical genius who defined the relationship between government science and technology shaping the powerful complex reality of our technological present. Approx.172 pages 32500 word count</p>