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The Biography of Jim Clark (Founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape)
- ▶ 14:33 David Senra It's, this is gonna remind you, I just did this two-part series on Van Eever Bush. 3 times in the scene
The Biography of Vannevar Bush (Engineer of the American Century)
- ▶ 0:01 David Senra On his death in the New York Times honored Bush with a front page obituary, calling him the engineer who marshaled American technology for World War II and ushered in the atomic age. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:35 David Senra So the prologue of the book gives a absolutely fantastic overview of Bush. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:15 David Senra So I want to pull out a couple things from Bush's early life. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 David Senra Bush next tried to gain admission to MIT as a doctoral student in electrical engineering. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:36 David Senra Um, this goes back to, I just love, uh, Bush's personality. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:44 David Senra And then out of his own experience, he realizes the need to develop some kind of tool for thought and what he's going to describe here. 22 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:02 David Senra This is a little bit about Bush coming to respect FDR, even though he did not agree with his policies. 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:51 David Senra The Atlantic published an essay by Bush entitled As We May Think. 19 times in the scene
The Autobiography of Vannevar Bush
- ▶ 0:00 David Senra In pieces of the action, Vannevar Bush, engineer, inventor, educator, and public face of government-funded science, offers an inside account of one of the most innovative research and development ecosystems of the 20th century. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:28 David Senra This is why Van Bush, everybody called him Van, by the way, because they couldn't pronounce his first name. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:48 David Senra And the reason this is important is because Van Bush is the first person to see Claude Shannon for who he was, which was a near universal genius. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:57 David Senra I'm only pulling out a couple highlights from the forward, obviously, because I want to get into as much of Bush's own words as possible, and you'll see why. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:32 David Senra So that's what they're telling a young Van Bush, and what he's saying is like, in my own lifetime, it's been proven that this is not true, just like it's not true today. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:14 David Senra And this is what Van said about that. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:45 David Senra This is now bush talking. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:05 David Senra Be like Putnam, be like Pulitzer, and then I want to give you an illustration of his personality in that Bush is not backing down. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:59 David Senra So he's referencing the first ever explosion of the atomic bomb, and this is the poem that Oppenheimer is reading to Bush two days before this happens. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:56 David Senra And so then Bush continues this point that this trend is pronounced in maturing industries. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:26 David Senra And so in this field of study, Van Busch had gone from being able to write a textbook on it to realizing that his students have now surpassed their teacher. 18 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:48 David Senra And then he has an entire chapter on teachers and teaching. 22 times in the scene