Vannevar Bush and the Engineering of American Innovation

Vannevar Bush shaped how the United States builds, funds, and thinks about technology. As both inventor and institutional architect, his work laid the foundations for digital logic, wartime research coordination, and the entire modern R&D landscape.

Before DARPA, before the National Science Foundation, before digital logic as we know it, there was Vannevar Bush. An engineer with a knack for building systems and institutions, Bush helped guide America’s technological rise in the twentieth century, shaping everything from wartime research to postwar science funding. He also helped plant the seeds of modern computing.

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