Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : David A Mindell
- ناشر : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2002
- شابک / ISBN : 9780801877742
Description
Introduction: A History of Control Systems -- Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company -- Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company -- Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals -- Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT -- Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar -- Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC -- The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses -- Analog's Finest Hour -- Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory -- Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital -- Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945 -- Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1 -- NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire Control -- Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 Director.
