Between human and machine : feedback, control and computing before cybernetics / David A. Mindell.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
XIV, 439 p. : ill., ritr. ; 26 cm
Serie:
Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: A history of control systems 2. Naval control systems: the bureau of ordnance and the Ford instrument company 3. Taming the beasts of the machine age: the Sperry company 4. Opening black's box: bell labs and the transmission of signals 5. Artificial representation of power systems: analog computing at MIT 6. Dress rehearsal for war: the four horsemen and Palomar 7. Organizing for war: the fire control divisions of the NDRC 8. The servomechanism laboratory and fire control for the masses 8. Analog's finest hour 10. Radar and system integration at the radiation laboratory 11. Cybernetics and ideas of the digital 12. Conclusion: Feedback and information in 1945. Appendix A: Algorithm of the Ford rangekeeper mark. Appendix B: NDRC section D-2 and division 7 contrcts for fire control. Appendix C: Algorithm of bell labs'T-10 director. Notes. Bibliography. Index
