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- catalog abstract "Mindell ponders the orgin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vannevar Bush's laboratory at MIT. In each culture, different technical problems, organizational imperatives, and working evironment existed, but they were all researching control, communications, and computing. When President Roosevelt synthesized the four engineering cultures into a representative government committee, they suffused engineering research with good principles and later made it possible for Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics.".
- catalog contributor b12632307.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description "A history of control systems -- Naval control systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company -- Taming the beasts of the machine age: The Sperry Company -- Opening Black's box: Bell Labs and the transmission of signals -- Artificial representation of power systems: Analog computing at MIT -- Dress rehearsal for war: The four horsemen and Palomar -- Organizing for war: The fire control divisions of the NDRC -- The Servomechanisms Laboratory and fire control for the masses -- Analog's finest hour -- Radar and system integration at the Radiation Laboratory -- Cybernetics and ideas of the digital.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-416) and index.".
- catalog description "Mindell ponders the orgin of cybernetics beyond Norbert Wiener's 1948 hypothesis. Mindell returns to the time between the World Wars, when four disparate computing research cultures thrived in the United States: the U.S. Navy, the Sperry Gyroscope Company, the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Vannevar Bush's laboratory at MIT. In each culture, different technical problems, organizational imperatives, and working evironment existed, but they were all researching control, communications, and computing. When President Roosevelt synthesized the four engineering cultures into a representative government committee, they suffused engineering research with good principles and later made it possible for Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 439 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801868955".
- catalog identifier "9780801877742 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog subject "004/.09 21".
- catalog subject "Computers History.".
- catalog subject "Electronic data processing History.".
- catalog subject "QA76.17 .M46 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "A history of control systems -- Naval control systems: The Bureau of Ordnance and the Ford Instrument Company -- Taming the beasts of the machine age: The Sperry Company -- Opening Black's box: Bell Labs and the transmission of signals -- Artificial representation of power systems: Analog computing at MIT -- Dress rehearsal for war: The four horsemen and Palomar -- Organizing for war: The fire control divisions of the NDRC -- The Servomechanisms Laboratory and fire control for the masses -- Analog's finest hour -- Radar and system integration at the Radiation Laboratory -- Cybernetics and ideas of the digital.".
- catalog title "Between human and machine : feedback, control, and computing before cybernetics / David A. Mindell.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".