To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

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.