Endless Horizons Author: Bush, Vannevar Place Published: Washington D.C. Publisher: Public Affairs Press Date Published: 1946 Description: 182 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Also includes: Printed document of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, certifying that R.C.Gilbert "has participated in work…contributing to the successful prosecution of the Second World War". 8x10½", c.1945, signed in facsimile by Bush and James B. Conant, Harvard President and chair of the National Defense Research Committee. Signed by Bush on front flyleaf. Anthology with first book appearance of important Bush writings. As Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research Development during World War II, Bush’s 1945 Report to President Roosevelt set the stage for American scientific postwar research and development. This 1946 collection of his writings incudes the first appearance in book form of six sections of that report, (first published as a government document in July 1945), as well as the first book appearance of “As We May Think” (first published in Atlantic Monthly), a visionary essay about the potential for machine information technology, influential in the modern history of computers and artificial intelligence. Condition: Spine faded; very good. Item#: 347136 Headline: Signed by the American Science czar of WWII
Endless Horizons Author: Bush, Vannevar Place Published: Washington D.C. Publisher: Public Affairs Press Date Published: 1946 Description: 182 pp. Original burgundy cloth, gilt titles. First Edition. Also includes: Printed document of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development, certifying that R.C.Gilbert "has participated in work…contributing to the successful prosecution of the Second World War". 8x10½", c.1945, signed in facsimile by Bush and James B. Conant, Harvard President and chair of the National Defense Research Committee. Signed by Bush on front flyleaf. Anthology with first book appearance of important Bush writings. As Director of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research Development during World War II, Bush’s 1945 Report to President Roosevelt set the stage for American scientific postwar research and development. This 1946 collection of his writings incudes the first appearance in book form of six sections of that report, (first published as a government document in July 1945), as well as the first book appearance of “As We May Think” (first published in Atlantic Monthly), a visionary essay about the potential for machine information technology, influential in the modern history of computers and artificial intelligence. Condition: Spine faded; very good. Item#: 347136 Headline: Signed by the American Science czar of WWII
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