1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990006512790403321

Autore

Woolf, Virginia <1882-1941>

Titolo

Cambiamento di prospettiva : Lettere 1923-1928 / Virginia Woolf ; a cura di N. Nicolson e J. Trautmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Einaudi, 1982

Descrizione fisica

XXIV, 756 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

826

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

XV IA 31

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455048203321

Autore

Mindell David A

Titolo

Between human and machine [[electronic resource] ] : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002

ISBN

9780801877741

0-8018-7774-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Collana

Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology

Disciplina

004/.09

Soggetti

Computers - History

Electronic data processing - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-416) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 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 Servomechanisms Laboratory and Fire Control for the Masses; 9 Analog's Finest Hour

10 Radar and System Integration at the Radiation Laboratory11 Cybernetics and Ideas of the Digital; 12 Conclusion: Feedback and Information in 1945; APPENDIX A: Algorithm of the Ford Rangekeeper Mark 1; APPENDIX B: NDRC Section D-2 and Division 7 Contracts for Fire Control; APPENDIX C: Algorithm of Bell Labs' T-10 Director; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z