Manual and Automatic Control - Hardcover

Kelley, C R

 
9780471467700: Manual and Automatic Control

Synopsis

The process of control has evolved without being well understood. This is true not only of the biological evolution of bodily regulating mechanism, but also of the technological evolution of manual and automatic control devices. Technological and biological control processes both are expressions of the life process. Man's effort to understand control processes is, however, a later, higher development, in which the life process turns inward and examines an aspect of itself. More accurately, living individuals attempt to examine how they and other men are able to exert control over their environments. This book, then, is the result of one such examination by an individual working in the technology on control.

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