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Vannevar Bush

1890–1974 · American engineer

American engineer (1890–1974) who led U.S. wartime research and imagined the Memex.

Vannevar Bush — American engineer (1890–1974) who led U.S. wartime research and imagined the Memex.

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The Mother of All Demos, 1968. What was shown but never built.
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