Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Control technology in the 1930s
• Chapter 2: Process control: technology and theory
• Chapter 3: The electronic negative feedback amplifier
• Chapter 4: Theory and design of servomechanisms
• Chapter 5: Wartime: problems and organisations
• Chapter 6: Development of design techniques for servomechanisms 1939-1945
• Chapter 7: Smoothing and prediction: 1939-1945
• Chapter 8: The classical years: 1945-1955

About the Author

Stuart Bennett is a senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He has written extensively about the history of control engineering and about the influence of technological developments on the process industries. His other interests include computer control, real-time system design methodologies and intelligent simulation systems.