Yes, it’s very interesting. I hadn’t realized until recently how controversial it was. Many scientists were skeptical of the government involvement and control it implied.
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My original source,fwiw is https://archive.org/details/researchanationa1940unitrich … . It's a bit dry, but has loads of info about R&D expenditure composition (largest chunk was in agriculture!)
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Adjacently, you may like Vannevar Bush's original memo that led to centralization of R&D spend by govt https://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/nsf50/vbush1945.htm …
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But isn't that what James linked https://twitter.com/james_ough/status/1100285464404201473?s=19 … (?)
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Ugh, with the new twitter UI, I didn't see this was in threaded convo
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Okay, since I now feel appropriately shamed Some other adjacent ones I'd add - Vannevar Bush and Alfred Loomis bios I'd both highly recommend - I've been reading recently about what galvanized investment in building the canals Like Fulton and the pseudoanonymous Hercules' work
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A little more engineering than R&D, but also interesting - Fulton's treatise: https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Treatise_on_the_Improvement_of_Canal_N.html?id=P-AWmS_F_PkC … - Hercules Memo that led to Erie Canal: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/canal/hawley_intro.html …
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I can only reply to that with Isambard Kingdom Brunel's bio and books on the original transatlantic telegraphic cables https://archive.org/details/layingcableoroc00mullgoog/page/n7 … https://archive.org/details/storyoftelegraph01brig … https://archive.org/details/lifeofisambardki00brunuoft … :-)
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Oh also Gallatin's famous report https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/gallatin-report-of-the-secretary-of-the-treasury-on-the-subject-of-public-roads-and-canals …
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