The Origins of Feedback Control

by Otto Mayr

Book Overview

This is the first historical account tracing the development of the technology of feedback control from its earliest applications. The author describes how the notion entered technology and in what forms it flourished. A case study in the intellectual history of technology, the book spans the invention of feedback control devices in all degrees of realization, from the verbally expressed idea to the industrially proved apparatus. It starts out by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262630567
• ISBN13: 9780262630566
• Release Date: July 1975
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 176 Pages