Anyone has data for US federal R&D expenditure before WWII? I found an old report from 1939, and from that I get 0.13% of GDP in R&D (vs 0.71% for 1953). The number makes sense to me, just to check.
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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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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. -
Unrelated but kinda amazing. James Conant, Harvard President 1933-1953, wrote a letter for a future Harvard president to open in 50 years time. A letter to the future! I love this so much:https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/harvards-conant-cites-specter-nuclear-war-1951-letter-21st-century-president …
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