A history of control engineering, 1930-1955
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A history of control engineering, 1930-1955
（IEE control engineering series, v. 47）
Peter Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1993
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Bibliography: p. [208]-216
Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780863412806
Description
A 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.
Table of Contents
- Control technology in the 1930s
- process control - technology and theory
- the electronic negative feedback amplifier
- theory and design of servomechanisms
- wartime - problems and organizations
- development of design of servomechanisms - 1939-1945
- smoothing and prediction - 1939-1945
- the classical years - 1945-1955.
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: pbk ISBN 9780863412998
Description
In the twenty-five years between 1930 and 1955 crucial changes in our understanding of feedback control systems occurred. The history of these developments is traced in this book.
Feedback control devices were used for general industrial control, in process control, in aircraft and ships, in the telephone system and in analogue computing systems. The significant developments that occurred during the 1930s in several of these areas are analysed in detail.
During the Second World War the ideas and techniques that had been developed in disparate areas were brought together to form what we now know as the classical frequency response methods of analysis and design. Work on methods for dealing with non-linear systems, sampled-data systems and stochastic systems began. The immediate post-war years saw the consolidation and dissemination of the classical methods and the addition of the root locus method for analysis and design. The final chapters cover the beginnings of so-called modern control with the introduction of state-space methods of analysis and design.
As well as being of interest to engineers the book is also relevant to historians concerned with social, economic and labour history.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Control technology in the 1930s
Chapter 2: Process control: technology and theory
Chapter 3: The electronic negative feedback amplifier
Chapter 4: Theory and design of servomechanisms
Chapter 5: Wartime: problems and organisations
Chapter 6: Development of design techniques for servomechanisms 1939-1945
Chapter 7: Smoothing and prediction: 1939-1945
Chapter 8: The classical years: 1945-1955
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