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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been sourcing and reading letters between Loomis and friends like James Conant. My guess is our culture doesn’t easily breed these type of humans- super high integrity, risk tolerant, long-term thinking. Keep coming back to perhaps war being the cultural (struggle) precursor.2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes -
Do you have folder or links you can share? I think the war helped. But from what I've researched / conversations with some people who were family friends I don't think the causality is in that direction. Most of them were already headed in their direction pre-war Loomis for ex
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Was already well into radar/cyclotron research by time war started. So that makes me tilt more to look at different factors of causality Agree it's the thing to unpack and try to recreate though
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I'm writing an article on a similar issue, and I've written blogposts about related matters https://nintil.com/2015/08/28/is-war-necessary-for-economic-growth-a-review-and-some-aviation-history-love/ … See also this absurdly long yet good paper frol Alexander Field https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3110832 …
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