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A History of Control Engineering 1800-1930

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Dr. Bennett traces the growing awareness of the importance and the significance of the concept of feedback in engineering and treats in detail the technical developments that contributed to this awareness. There follows an account of the development of steam and hydraulic servomechanisms and their application to the control of ships and aircraft.

Author(s): S. Bennett
Series: Control Engineering Series 8
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, United Kingdom
Year: 2008

Language: English
Pages: 214
City: Stevenage, Herts., U.K
Tags: arc lamps; aircraft control; ships; servomechanisms; feedback amplifiers; network analysis; control engineering

Front Matter
1 Feedback: the origins of a concept
2 The regulation of prime movers
3 Towards an understanding of the stability of motion
4 The development of servomechanisms
5 The new technology: electricity
6 The shrinking world
Back Matter