Dr. Vannevar Bush, M.I.T. Professor of Electric Power Transmission, and E.S. Lamar, M.I.T. Research Associate, demonstrate the Dr. Robert Van De Graf 1,500,000 volt ...

But as U.S. officials scrambled to prepare for entry into World War II in 1940, a former MIT dean, Vannevar Bush, pitched President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the critical need to marshal defense ...

He tasked Vannevar Bush, the former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, with marshalling the country’s top scientists and researchers to create more advanced weapons and technology.