x, 184 pp. Several diagrams in text. (8vo) original blue printed wrappers. First Edition.

Vannevar Bush (1890–1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, whose most important contribution was as head of the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) during World War II, through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. The present text is a seminal document in establishing scientific direction in post-war American. In this 1945 report to the President, Bush called for an expansion of government support for science, and he pressed for the creation of the National Science Foundation. Scarce.