Frederick Gardner Cottrell Signed Correspondence With Vannevar Bush

by Vannevar Bush Frederick Gardner Cottrell

$700 · Offered by Second Story Books

1940. One-page TLS from engineer, inventor, and President of the Carnegie Institution Vannevar Bush to Cottrell, dated May 1, 1940, with an ALS reply from Cottrell written on the reverse side. In Very Good minus condition. In this exchange, Bush reminds Cottrell to tell him where to obtain light-hardening tung oil and inform him of how to use it, and Cottrell replies with the relevant information. Bush would head the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and

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