Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics
As a new way to conceptualize the history of computing, this book will be of great interest to historians of science, technology, and culture, as well as computer scientists and theorists. Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics
Print Book, English, 2002
<<The>> Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore (Md.), 2002
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XIV, 439 p. ill. 26 cm
9780801868955, 0801868955
1015111506
Preface and Acknowledgments1. Introduction: A History of Control Systems2. Naval Control Systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company3. Taming the Beasts of the Machine Age: The Sperry Company4. Opening Black's Box: Bell Labs and the Transmission of Signals5. Artificial Representation of Power Systems: Analog Computing at MIT6. Dress Rehearsal for War: The Four Horsemen and Palomar7. Organizing for War: The Fire Control Divisions of the NDRC8. The Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses9. Analog's Finest Hour10. Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory11. Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital12. Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945Appendix A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1Appendix B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire ControlAppendix C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 DirectorNotesBibliographyIndex
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