Vannevar Bush sitting at his desk. ‪He wears a dark grey suit with vest and a red tie. His hair is silver and he is wearing glasses with thin, round frames. Bush is reclining in a dark leather chair outlined by rivets, with mahogany arm rests. The wall behind him is yellow. mage Credit: Carnegie Institute for Science‬

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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 21:31:23 UTC Robert McNees

Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who built one of the first analog computers, was born #OTD in 1890. He headed the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII, proposed what became the @NSF, and devised an early hypertext system!

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