ABSTRACT
Most of the new firms located along Highway 128, the original suburban beltway of Boston, completed in 1951, which links 20 towns, most of them hubs of manufacturing and service activities from the old industrial era. In fact, Greater Boston has gone through at least two waves of reindustrialization in the last 40 years, after losing its traditional industries, mainly in textiles and apparel, during the 1930s and 1940s. The renaissance of the town of Lowell, the oldest textile industrial city in New England, well illustrates this remarkable turnaround of the Massachusetts economy. Both Bush and his company would prove decisive for the future of high technology in Massachusetts, with the help of World War Two and of the Defense Department. In 1940, Bush became director of the Federal National Research and Defense Committee, and in this position was fully conscious of the decisive military potential of radar, just invented in Britain.
