A History of Control Engineering, 1930-1955A 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. |
Contents
Control technology in the 1930s | 1 |
technology and theory | 28 |
Derivative control action | 46 |
The electronic negative feedback amplifier | 70 |
Theory and design of servomechanisms | 97 |
problems and organisations | 115 |
Development of design techniques for servomechanisms 19391945 | 130 |
19391945 | 164 |
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