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Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics /
Mindell ponders the orgin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and V...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.