Vannevar Bush Birthday

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Vannevar Bush was born on 11 March, 1890

American engineer and inventor known for starting and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He also constructed a differential analyser which was an analog computer that could solve differential equations. Additionally, Bush developed the idea of memex, a hypothetical hypertext microfilm viewer, which, many consider, laid the foundation of the World Wide Web. He was one of the co-founders of Raytheon, the major American defence contractor.