Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century / by G. Pascal Zachary.
Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century / by G. Pascal Zachary.
Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century / by G. Pascal Zachary.
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New York : Free Press, c1997.
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N621.3092/B978/1
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English
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viii, 518 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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New York : Free Press, c1997.
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New York (State)
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c1997.
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During World War II, he was Roosevelt's adviser and chief contact on all matters of military technology, including the atomic bomb. He launched the Manhattan Project and oversaw a collection of 6,000 civilian scientists who designed scores of new weapons. When an Allied victory seemed inevitable, his attention turned to the future. In July 1945 he...
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Endless frontier : Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century / by G. Pascal Zachary.
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Vannevar Bush, engineer of the American Century.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-491) and index.
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c1997.
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N621.3092/B978/1
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74VvPEAkLXqO
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0684828219
9780684828213
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621.3092
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991005614799702626
