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A History of Control Engineering 1800-1930

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Author(s): S. Bennett
Publication Year: 1979

Dr. Bennett traces the growing awareness of the importance and the significance of the concept of feedback in engineering and treats in detail the technical developments that contributed to this awareness. There follows an account of the development of steam and hydraulic servomechanisms and their application to the control of ships and aircraft.

Inspec keywords: arc lamps; aircraft control; ships; servomechanisms; feedback amplifiers; network analysis; control engineering

Other keywords: prime mover control; aircraft control; arc lamp; ship control; electrical control system; stability; hydraulic servomechanism; control engineering; circuit analysis; feedback amplifier; steam servomechanism

Subjects: Actuating and final control devices; Control of electric power systems; Transportation system control; Amplifiers

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