A history of control engineering, 1930-1955 / S. Bennett.
By: Bennett, S. (Stuart)
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Contributor(s): Institution of Electrical Engineers.
Material type:
BookSeries: IEE control engineering series ; v. 47.Publisher: Stevenage : Peter Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1993Description: x, 250 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0863412807; 0863412998.Subject(s): Automatic control -- HistoryDDC classification: 629.809 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 629.809 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00013211 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A survey of advances in the field of control engineering from 1930 to 1955, which traces the development of servomechanisms and the electronic negative feedback amplifier, and describes organizations which were developed during World War II to deal with industrial applications.
Bibliography: p. 208-244 - Includes index.
Control technology in the 1930s -- Process control: technology and theory -- The electronic negative feedback amplifier -- Theory and design of servomechanisms -- Wartime: problems and organisations -- Development of design techniques for servomechanisms 1939-1945 -- Smoothing and prediction: 1939-1945 -- The classical years: 1945-1955.