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The first modern analog computer, the Differential Analyzer could solve certain classes of differential equations.
Science: The Endless Frontier was delivered to President Harry S. Truman in July 1945.1
Although the report was originally requested by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in November 1944 to outline how science could assist the nation in the postwar era, it was presented to Truman following Roosevelt's death. The document served as Vannevar Bush's blueprint for government-supported, university-based research, proposing the creation of a National Research Foundation.1