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A brief history of automatic control
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The author looks at the history of automatic control in four main periods as follows: early control up to 1900; the pre-classical period 1900-1940; the classical period 1935-1960; and modem control post 1955. This article is concerned with the first three of the above; other articles in this issue deal with the more recent period.
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Metadata
- Venue
- IEEE Control Systems
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 17-25
- ISSN
- 1066-033X (ISSN-L)
- 1941-000X
- OpenAlex
- W2133354309
- Cited by
- 240
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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