Science, inventions & engineering
Vannevar Bush
1890–1974
Massachusetts connection
MIT in Cambridge; Raytheon co-founder
Bush was an engineer who worked on early computing at MIT and helped found the company later known as Raytheon. Its early work included radio technology. His career connects laboratories, companies, and government research. Large technical changes depend on many people with different kinds of skill.
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