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What patent-system work did Vannevar Bush perform for President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
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The first modern analog computer, the Differential Analyzer could solve certain classes of differential equations.
Vannevar Bush served as the chairman of the committee that examined the patent system for President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s short-lived Science Advisory Board. This work occurred during the 1930s, a period when Bush was increasingly involved in national politics while serving as the dean of engineering at MIT.1