A History of Control Engineering, 1930-55
Published on 10. December 1993
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-86341-280-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Stevenage
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 line drawings, bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86341-280-6 (9780863412806)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Control technology in the 1930s; process control - technology and theory; the electronic negative feedback amplifier; theory and design of servomechanisms; wartime - problems and organizations; development of design of servomechanisms - 1939-1945; smoothing and prediction - 1939-1945; the classical years - 1945-1955.