The purpose of Silicon Valley

These are the prune tree blooms.
The Santa Clara Valley in California, which is situated in a geologic trough, was formerly referred to as the Valley of Heart's Delight because of its farmland abundant with flowers and fruit, including prunes.How did a place renowned for its fruits and flowers.. become a center of knowledge?

American engineer Vannevar Bush essentially oversaw research and development during World War II.He also wrote an essay titled "Science: The Endless Frontier" and published it in 1945.Bush reported to President Roosevelt that the pioneer spirit is still vigorous within this nation.
although partially on issues like the fight against sickness.

The report also established the assumption that continued support for science was essential for the general welfare.
Only a few years later, Henry Ford and Harry Truman created the National Science Foundation to encourage industrial growth for national security.
Because of this support, the San Francisco Bay Area had access to facilities like NASA's Ames, which was formerly known as NACA, and Navy bases close to San Francisco.
Along with that, Stanford University was nearby.

The university has more land resources than funds.The university had a lot of land because it was built on Leland Stanford's land grant.
This early proposal shows how a tiny campus was encircled by countryside.However, Stanford wasn't particularly wealthy.
One of Vannevar Bush's former students wanted to tap into the region's enormous untapped potential.
Frederick Terman was a renowned figure in radio science and a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.
During World War II, he worked on projects including blocking Nazi radar and authored a book on radio engineering.It had copies sold in the hundreds of thousands.As a professor and dean before being named university provost in 1955, Terman looked for ways to advance the Valley of Heart's Delight.
This land use study from the 1950s demonstrates Stanford's intention to use a portion of its land primarily for the campus and residential construction.
Stanford built the Stanford Shopping Mall as a means of addressing their lack of funds.
The university is still renting it today.
Their California Pizza Kitchen is this.
More significantly,Terman assisted the university in the creation of Stanford Industrial Park, now known as Stanford Research Park.
This is how it appeared in 1953.

The park offered tenants reasonable 99-year leases with a rigorous development plan to preserve the Palo Alto Construction identity.
They insisted on keeping the grassland that the Valley of Heart's Delight was known for and on low buildings.But it was more than just a construction project on university property.Terman imagined a new cycle right away.Stanford to businesses.Stanford to businesses.Stanford to businesses.repeating and overlapping Stanford to businesses.In an interview celebrating the 75th anniversary of Palo Alto, he stated,"And I would argue universities made a huge contribution.

in this development."
But after that, the businesses significantly aided in the growth of the university departments that supported these businesses.
He promoted this in numerous ways, such as enabling professors to work part-time for corporations and get corporate salaries.and assisting businesses in enrolling staff members as Stanford students.
He triumphantly tore out this article about professors who are millionaires.
Additionally, he made speeches highlighting Stanford as a source of highly skilled labor for those businesses at a time when such labor is in limited supply.Importantly, neither silicon nor semiconductor businesses were the basis for this cycle.Any tenant who desired to be close to Stanford was welcome to rent space at Stanford Industrial Park.The book publisher Houghton Mifflin staked a claim in the Stanford Industrial Park.
There were also spaces there for other high-tech businesses that weren't computer-focused, as this image from 1960 demonstrates.Here is Terman at the opening of a building in Stanford Research Park for SpinCo, a manufacturer of centrifuges and a branch...