Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Vannevar Bush across 8 places, from 1890 to 1974.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 to June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Vannevar Bush is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Vannevar Bush was documented, and when
11 March 1890exact date
Everett, Massachusettsattested“Vannevar Bush was born in Everett, Massachusetts, on March 11, 1890.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1892 to 1909period
Chelsea, Massachusettsattested“The family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1892, and Bush graduated from Chelsea High School in 1909.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1892 to 1909period
Chelsea High School (Massachusetts)attested“The family moved to Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1892, and Bush graduated from Chelsea High School in 1909.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
October 1914month
Brooklyn Navy Yardattested“He returned to Tufts in October 1914 to teach mathematics, and spent the 1915 summer break working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as an electrical inspector.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
October 1914month
Tuftsattested“He returned to Tufts in October 1914 to teach mathematics, and spent the 1915 summer break working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as an electrical inspector.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
July 1943month
10 Downing Streetattested“In July 1943, on a visit to London to learn about British progress on antisubmarine technology, Bush, Stimson, and Bundy met with Anderson, Lord Cherwell, and Winston Churchill at 10 Downing Street.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
July 1943month
Londonattested“In July 1943, on a visit to London to learn about British progress on antisubmarine technology, Bush, Stimson, and Bundy met with Anderson, Lord Cherwell, and Winston Churchill at 10 Downing Street.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
May 1944month
Londonattested“Before the war, Bush had gone on the record as saying, "I don't understand how a serious scientist or engineer can play around with rockets", but in May 1944, he was forced to travel to London to warn General Dwight Eisenhower of the dan…”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
28 June 1974exact date
Belmont, Massachusettsattested“After suffering a stroke, Bush died in Belmont, Massachusetts, at the age of 84 from pneumonia on June 28, 1974.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
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Chelsea High School (Massachusetts)1 presence · 1892
Chelsea, Massachusetts1 presence · 1892
Everett, Massachusetts1 presence · 1890
Tufts1 presence · 1914
Other places tied to Vannevar Bush in the record
In each of these, a source puts Vannevar Bush and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
that Vannevar Bush was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason:
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1919year
Massachusettsmentioned“Bush left Tufts in 1919, although he remained employed by AMRAD, and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked under Dugald C.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1919year
Tuftsmentioned“Bush left Tufts in 1919, although he remained employed by AMRAD, and joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he worked under Dugald C.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1927year
Cambridgementioned“When Harold Jeffreys in Cambridge, England, offered his mathematical treatment in Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics (1927), Bush responded with his seminal textbook Operational Circuit Analysis (1929) for instructing electrical…”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
December 1938month
Sunnyvale, Californiamentioned“In December 1938, NACA asked for $11 million to establish a new aeronautical research laboratory in Sunnyvale, California, to supplement the existing Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
July 1945month
United Statesmentioned“In Science, The Endless Frontier, science historian Daniel Kevles later wrote, Bush "insisted upon the principle of Federal patronage for the advancement of knowledge in the United States, a departure that came to govern Federal science…”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
16 July 1945exact date
Holloman Air Force Basementioned“Bush was present at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range on July 16, 1945, for the Trinity nuclear test, the first detonation of an atomic bomb.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1952 to 1959period
Massachusettsmentioned“He retired as president of the Carnegie Institution and returned to Massachusetts in 1955, but remained a director of Metals and Controls Corporation from 1952 to 1959, and of Merck & Co.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
1954year
New Yorkmentioned“Bush was outraged when a security hearing stripped Oppenheimer of his security clearance in 1954; he issued a strident attack on Oppenheimer's accusers in The New York Times.”source: Wikipedia: Vannevar Bush
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