Vanevar Bush designed an electromechanical analog computer called the Differential Analyzer. Bush's machine cost about $500,000 to build.
Much of the ENIAC architecture and programming system was derived from the Differential Analyzer, except ENIAC was all electronic and all digital. In Eckert and Mauchley's ENIAC proposal to the Army they estimated the cost to build at about $50,000. The Army took the proposal to Bush for evaluation, as he had the most experience with computing machines on this scale (even though his was analog and ENIAC was digital). Bush estimated cost to build at about $500,000... he was right!
Vanevar Bush also had a lot to do with advising on ICBM development and the Space Program later.
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he helped invent the computer ;)
Vannevar Bush was born on March 11, 1890.
Vannevar Bush Award was created in 1980.
Vannevar Bush died on June 30, 1974 at the age of 84.
Vannevar Bush was born on March 11, 1890 and died on June 30, 1974. Vannevar Bush would have been 84 years old at the time of death or 125 years old today.
Vannevar Bush
vanner bush is the mis-spelling of Vannevar
1929 at MIT
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This MIT engineer developed the first modern analog computer to solve complex equations. It weighed 100 tons and incorporated 150 motors and some 200 miles (about 300 km) of wire.
Vannevar Bush was an American scientist and engineer, who is known for his involvement with the development of the atomic bomb; also for his famous predictions about a memex - a web of information stored on computers, that would be fullfilled in the internet. See related link.