Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell
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| Autore: |
Mindell David A
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| Titolo: |
Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / / David A. Mindell
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (456 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 004/.09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Computers - History |
| Electronic data processing - History | |
| 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "In contextualizing the theory of cybernetics, Mindell gives engineering back forgotten parts of its history, and shows how important historical circumstances are to technological change." -- Networker. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Between human and machine |
| ISBN: | 9780801877741 |
| 0-8018-7774-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822058903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.