If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

With the Army on board Bush moved to streamline oversight of the project by the OSRD replacing the S-1 Section with a new S-1 Executive Committee. Mead as his deputy. Compton appointed Bush to the newly created post of vice president in 1932.

It was the first of a string of inventions. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1919 and founded the company now known as Raytheon in 1922.